Author : Arthur Wallace Calhoun
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 26,58 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Families
ISBN :
V. I. Colonial period -- v. II. From Independence through the Civil War -- v. III. Since the civil war.
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Page : 411 pages
File Size : 22,8 MB
Release : 1960
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Author : Arthur W.. Calhoun
Publisher :
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 26,41 MB
Release : 1946
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Author : Arthur Wallace Calhoun
Publisher :
Page : 1164 pages
File Size : 40,86 MB
Release : 1945
Category : Families
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Author : Arland Thornton
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 41,1 MB
Release : 2013-09-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 022612679X
European and American scholars from the eighteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries thought that all societies passed through the same developmental stages, from primitive to advanced. Implicit in this developmental paradigm—one that has affected generations of thought on societal development—was the assumption that one could "read history sideways." That is, one could see what the earlier stages of a modern Western society looked like by examining contemporaneous so-called primitive societies in other parts of the world. In Reading History Sideways, leading family scholar Arland Thornton demonstrates how this approach, though long since discredited, has permeated Western ideas and values about the family. Further, its domination of social science for centuries caused the misinterpretation of Western trends in family structure, marriage, fertility, and parent-child relations. Revisiting the "developmental fallacy," Thornton here traces its central role in changes in the Western world, from marriage to gender roles to adolescent sexuality. Through public policies, aid programs, and colonialism, it continues to reshape families in non-Western societies as well.
Author : Edith Henderson Grotberg
Publisher :
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 26,50 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Child welfare
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Author : Michael J. Rosenfeld
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 34,60 MB
Release : 2009-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0674034902
Michael J. Rosenfeld offers a new theory of family dynamics to account for the interesting and startling changes in marriage and family composition in the United States in recent years. His argument revolves around the independent life stage that emerged around 1960. This stage is experienced by young adults after they leave their parents’ homes but before they settle down to start their own families. During this time, young men and women go away to college, travel abroad, begin careers, and enjoy social independence. This independent life stage has reduced parental control over the dating practices and mate selection of their children and has resulted in a sharp rise in interracial and same-sex unions—unions that were more easily averted by previous generations of parents. Complementing analysis of newly available census data from the entire twentieth century with in-depth interviews that explore the histories of families and couples, Rosenfeld proposes a conceptual model to explain many social changes that may seem unrelated but that flow from the same underlying logic. He shows, for example, that the more a relationship is transgressive of conventional morality, the more likely it is for the individuals to live away from their family and area of origin.
Author : Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 859 pages
File Size : 13,92 MB
Release : 2012-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0195188055
Collection of essays tracing the historical evolution of African American experiences, from the dawn of Reconstruction onward, through the perspectives of sociology, political science, law, economics, education and psychology. As a whole, the book is a systematic study of the gap between promise and performance of African Americans since 1865. Over the course of thirty-four chapters, contributors present a portrait of the particular hurdles faced by African Americans and the distinctive contributions African Americans have made to the development of U.S. institutions and culture. --From publisher description.
Author : Lynn Dumenil
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 47,67 MB
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1400853834
As the United States moved from Victorian values to those of modern consumerism, the religious component of Freemasonry was increasingly displaced by a secular ideology of service (like that of business and professional clubs), and the Freemasons' psychology of asylum from the competitive world gave way to the aim of good fellowship" within it. This study not only illuminates this process but clarifies the neglected topic of fraternal orders and enriches our understanding of key facets of American cultural change. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 26,38 MB
Release : 2007-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803233836
Armed with Bible and primer, missionaries and teachers in colonial America sought, in their words, “to Christianize and civilize the native heathen.” Both the attempts to transform Indians via schooling and the Indians' reaction to such efforts are closely studied for the first time in Indian Education in the American Colonies, 1607–1783. Margaret Connell Szasz’s remarkable synthesis of archival and published materials is a detailed and engaging story told from both Indian and European perspectives. Szasz argues that the most intriguing dimension of colonial Indian education came with the individuals who tried to work across cultures. We learn of the remarkable accomplishments of two Algonquian students at Harvard, of the Creek woman Mary Musgrove who enabled James Oglethorpe and the Georgians to establish peaceful relations with the Creek Nation, and of Algonquian minister Samson Occom, whose intermediary skills led to the founding of Dartmouth College. The story of these individuals and their compatriots plus the numerous experiments in Indian schooling provide a new way of looking at Indian-white relations and colonial Indian education.
