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Designing Families : the Search for Self and Community in the Information Age.
Designing Families is a thought-provoking examination of the challenges facing the nuclear family as it enters the new millenium. John Scanzoni sets the issue of change in families in aN historical and cross-cultural perspective tracing the development of the family from the Agricultural Age to the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Thousand Oaks :
SAGE Publications,
1999.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1
- New Families-New Ideas
- The Information Age
- Six Principles for a New Family Policy
- Repairing Damaged Solidarities
- Self and Community
- Women's Interests
- Empowerment: Personal and Political
- Dialogue
- Positive Welfare
- Manufactured Risk
- Confronting Violence
- Conclusion
- Part I
- Designing Families Past and Present
- Chapter 2
- An Unfinished Revolution: The 1940s Nonconnected Family Style
- A Foot in Each of Two Family Styles
- The Connected Family Style
- The Freedom to Love
- The Nonconnected Family Style
- The Industrial Revolution
- The American Dream and Kin Support
- Unique Constraints on African Americans
- Fictive Kin
- The Emergence of Feminism
- The Seneca Falls Declaration
- Domestic Science: A Halfway Feminism
- Homemaker
- Mother
- Children
- Reinventing Sex and Love: A Halfway Liberation
- The Collapse and Revival of Mutual Aid
- Mutual Aid Replaced by the Government
- Postwar Suburbia: The Pinnacle of the Nonconnected Style
- A New Family Policy: The G.I. Bill
- Women's Continued Disadvantage
- Chapter 3
- A Continuing Revolution: The 1950s to the Present
- Separate, Unequal, and Discontent
- An Expanded Mother Role
- "Quiet Desperation"
- A "Massive Failure"
- Social Protections
- An "Impoverished Experience"
- Intimate Networks
- A "Major Problem"
- Feminism Revived
- Government Participation
- Confronting the Sexual Double Standard
- Love in the Late 20th Century
- Love as Caring for Oneself
- Self-Sufficiency
- Cohabitation: Love Without a License
- Domestic Partnership
- The Wedding as a Ritual of Transformation
- Love and License Among Cohabiting Same-Sex Couples
- The Culmination of Changes in Love: The Erotic Friendship
- The Generic Essence of the Erotic Friendship
- Adding Features.
- Love as Emotional Intimacy
- The Counterrevolution Against New Views of Sex, Love, and Marriage
- "Kids First"
- "Cultural Decay"
- Restricting Divorce
- The Fate of the Equal Rights Amendment
- The 1980 White House Conference on Families
- Conclusion
- Chapter 4
- Cohousing as Family Reform
- Reforming the Nonconnected Lifestyle
- Spatial Design and Social Connectedness
- Support Networks
- Sound Neighborhoods and Healthy Families
- Balancing Freedom With Connectedness
- The Struggles of Group Decision Making
- Issues that may Unite or Divide a Cohousing Neighborhood
- Children
- Political or Social Agenda
- Dyadic Intimacy Versus the Primary Group
- Historic Struggles Over the Freedom-Connectedness Tension
- North American Communes of the 1960s and 1970s
- Spatial Features
- The Shakers
- The Oneida Community
- The Kibbutzim of the 1940s and 1950s
- Freedom and Connectedness in Today's "Community as Commodity"
- The Common-Interest Development
- The Fortress Mentality
- Adults-Only Developments
- Conclusion
- Part II
- Inventing the Future by Completing the Revolution
- Chapter 5
- Empowering Women: Balancing the Private and Public Spheres
- Utopian Realism
- Gender Interchangeability
- Equal-Partner Marriage: An Unrealized Vision
- A Nordic Feminist Vision
- The New Everyday Life
- A Cure for Isolation
- Women's Empowerment
- Sanctuary: The Specter of Violence
- A "Different Future"
- A Safe Place
- Practical Considerations
- Nonviolent Couple Decision Making: A Level Playing Field
- Figuring Out Everyday Matters
- Dyadic Power
- The Friend as Mediator
- The Neighborhood as Resource
- The Interests of Men: A Pact Between the Genders
- The Rise of Productivism
- A Fresh Look at Paid Work
- A Fresh Look at Productivity
- Noneconomic Productivity
- Productivity and Moral Worth.
- The NEL as a Zone of Productivity
- Children's Capital
- Group Influences on Creating and Maintaining Norms
- The Social Context of Gender Flexibility
- Conclusion
- Chapter 6
- Empowering Children and Youth: Making Parenting Public
- Children in Nonindustrial Settings
- Children's Productivity and Autonomy
- Children in Industrial Settings
- Children as Social Agents
- Children in the New Everyday Life
- Sanctuary and Children
- A Proactive Strategy
- Corporal Punishment
- Children as Partners
- The Production of Capital
- Physical Capital: Tangible Resources
- Financial Capital: Cash Resources
- Human Capital: Internal Resources
- Social Capital: Shared Obligations as Resources
- Giving and Getting
- The Free Rider
- A "Moral" Obligation
- Social Capital and Group Solidarity
- Self-Interest
- The Long-Term Decline of Social Capital
- The Public Household
- Teams in the NEL Community
- The New Human Capital
- Knowledge Workers
- Men and the New Human Capital
- The Team Facilitator
- Homeplace Teams
- Children's Responsibilities
- Jobs and People
- Growing Social Capital: Contributing to the Community
- Growing Human Capital: Becoming a Critical Thinker
- A Laboratory of Democracy
- A Workshop for Gender Equity
- Rewarding the Coach
- A Zone of Productivity
- The Caregiver
- A Productive Aging Society
- Reinventing the "Older Person"
- Geographic Mobility
- Child-Free Adults
- Redefining the "Good Parent"
- Lone-Parent Households
- Conclusion
- Chapter 7
- Empowering the Community: Making the Private Political
- The Political Vision of the Religious Right
- A Strategy of Retreat
- A Strategy of Confrontation
- The Political Vision of the New Everyday Life
- New Social Forms
- Grafting the Politics of Class Onto the Politics of Gender
- An Example from Cohousing.