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A Social History of Twentieth Century Europe.
A Social History of Twentieth-Century Europe offers a systematic overview on major aspects of social life, including population, family and households, social inequalities and mobility, the welfare state, work, consumption and leisure, social cleavages in politics, urbanization as well as education,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; A SOCIAL HISTORY OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY EUROPE; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Population; Changes in population size: eras of demographic catastrophes, stepped growth and stability; The demographic transition: model and criticism; Main trends in fertility: from high to lowest-low; Trends in mortality: from uncertain to certain lifetime; Migration in Europe: a turnaround of flows; The population of Europe today: a second transition?; 3 Families and households.
- Marriage patterns: on the two sides of the Hajnal lineChanges in family and household structure: contraction and nuclearization; Relationship between partners and attitudes towards children: growing symmetry and attention; Divorce and the pluralization of family forms: the silent revolution of values at work; Families in the new millennium: the post-modern as a return to the pre-modern?; 4 Social stratification and social mobility; Trends in income and wealth distribution: the inverted U-curve and 'the great U-turn'; Sectoral distribution of the labour force: roads to post-industrialism.
- Social classes and strata: expanding centre and fading contoursSocial mobility: trendless fluctuation?; Recent trends in social stratification: dissolving classes and new inequalities; 5 The welfare state; The beginnings of the welfare state in Europe: the first social security programs; The expansion of the welfare states: institutionalized solidarity; Social welfare systems: the three-plus-one worlds of welfare; Determinants of welfare development: the logic of industrialism versus class alliances.
- Trends in social welfare at the end of the century: crisis and retrenchment or marginal adjustment?6 Work, leisure and consumption; The world of work: Fordism and post-Fordism; The evolution of the standard of living: quantitative and structural changes; The age of mass consumption: the democratization of luxury?; Spare time, leisure and mass culture: jeux sans frontières; The consumer society and its critics: de gustibus est disputandum; Quality of life at the end of the twentieth century: the environmental and social consequences of economic growth; 7 Politics and society.
- Foundations of political behaviour: social cleavagesParticipation in political decision making: the development of suffrage; Political parties: systems and families; Changes in the party systems: freezing and thawing out?; Social movements: waves of contention; Political culture and political communication: civil society
- the mass media; New developments of the 1990s: regime changes in Eastern Europe; 8 Urbanization; Cities and towns in the twentieth century: the modern era of urbanization.