African Families And The Crisis Of Social Change
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Author | : Thomas S. Weisner |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1997-06-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0897895193 |
African families face serious crises today. They are under economic, demographic and political pressures of all kinds; yet, families are not mere hapless victims of global change. They are proactive, resilient agents and creators of change. This volume studies global and national transformation from the point of view of families in local communities. Contributors are from Africa, North America, and Europe, and provide socially and historically based, culturally rich, multigenerational, and comparative perspectives on family life in Africa today. The essays explore contemporary change in African families, and consequences for children and parents, the elderly, gender roles, moral values, fertility, health (HIV and nutrition), and economic development. Ultimately, despite desperate economic, sociohistorical, demographic and political circumstances, African families remain vitally important for social and psychological support throughout an individual's life span.
Author | : Thomas S. Weisner |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1997-05-30 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : |
African families face serious crises today. They are under economic, demographic and political pressures of all kinds; yet, families are not mere hapless victims of global change. They are proactive, resilient agents and creators of change. This volume studies global and national transformation from the point of view of families in local communities. Contributors are from Africa, North America, and Europe, and provide socially and historically based, culturally rich, multigenerational, and comparative perspectives on family life in Africa today. The essays explore contemporary change in African families, and consequences for children and parents, the elderly, gender roles, moral values, fertility, health (HIV and nutrition), and economic development. Ultimately, despite desperate economic, sociohistorical, demographic and political circumstances, African families remain vitally important for social and psychological support throughout an individual's life span.
Author | : Thomas S. Weisner |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1997-06-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0897895193 |
African families face serious crises today. They are under economic, demographic and political pressures of all kinds; yet, families are not mere hapless victims of global change. They are proactive, resilient agents and creators of change. This volume studies global and national transformation from the point of view of families in local communities. Contributors are from Africa, North America, and Europe, and provide socially and historically based, culturally rich, multigenerational, and comparative perspectives on family life in Africa today. The essays explore contemporary change in African families, and consequences for children and parents, the elderly, gender roles, moral values, fertility, health (HIV and nutrition), and economic development. Ultimately, despite desperate economic, sociohistorical, demographic and political circumstances, African families remain vitally important for social and psychological support throughout an individual's life span.
Author | : Marian Wright Edelman |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9780674292291 |
Too many American families are in serious peril, and both the reality of the situation and the myths obscuring that reality call for attention and swift action. In this incisive analysis, Edelman, President of the Children's Defense Fund, charts what is happening, exposes myths, and sets a bold agenda to strengthen families and protect children.
Author | : Carolyn P. Edwards |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780803248090 |
Ngecha is the monumental and intimate study of modernization and nationalization in rural Africa in the early years following Kenyan independence in 1963, as experienced by the people of Ngecha, a village outside Nairobi. From 1968 to 1973 Ngecha was a research site of the Child Development Research Unit, a team that brought together Kenyan and non-Kenyan social scientists under the leadership of John Whiting and Beatrice Blyth Whiting. The study documents how families adapted to changing opportunities and conditions as their former colony became a modern nation, and the key role that women played as agents of change as they became small-scale cash-crop farmers and entrepreneurs. Mothers modified the culture of their parents to meet the evolving national economy, and they participated in the shift from an agrarian to a wage economy in ways that transformed their workloads and perceptions of isolation and individualism within and between households, thereby challenging traditional family-based morals and obligations. Their children, in turn, experienced evolving educational practices and achievement expectations. The elders faced new situations as well as new modes of treatment. Completing this valuable record of a nation in transition are the long-term reassessments of the observations and conclusions of the research team, and a description of Ngecha today as viewed by Kenyans who participated in the original study.
Author | : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789171065629 |
Author | : Göran Therborn |
Publisher | : Nordic Africa Institute |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789171065360 |
The family is one of the most important institutions of African societies. Where is it going today? How is it affected by global processes, cultural and political as well as economic? How does it compare with family developments in other parts of the world? These are questions which this book addresses. The contributors deal with the African family in a comparative global context, focusing on patriarchy, sexuality and marriage, and fertility; biological and social reproduction in Ghana under conditions of globalization and structural adjustment; Nigerian marriage relations under the impact of current conditions and; family changes in the North (Britain) from a family perspective of the South (South Africa).
Author | : Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (U.S.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : African American children |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kalpana Hiralal |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2018-07-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3319657836 |
This volume examines gender and mobility in Africa though the central themes of borders, bodies and identity. It explores perceptions and engagements around ‘borders’; the ways in which ‘bodies’ and women’s bodies in particular, shape and are affected by mobility, and the making and reproduction of actual and perceived ‘boundaries’; in relation to gender norms and gendered identify. Over fourteen original chapters it makes revealing contributions to the field of migration and gender studies. Combining historical and contemporary perspectives on mobility in Africa, this project contextualises migration within a broad historical framework, creating a conceptual and narrative framework that resists post-colonial boundaries of thought on the subject matter. This multidisciplinary work uses divergent methodologies including ethnography, archival data collection, life histories and narratives and multi-country survey level data and engages with a range of conceptual frameworks to examine the complex forms and outcomes of mobility on the continent today. Contributions include a range of case studies from across the continent, which relate either conceptually or methodologically to the central question of gender identity and relations within migratory frameworks in Africa. This book will appeal to researchers and scholars of politics, history, anthropology, sociology and international relations.
Author | : Alcinda Manuel Honwana |
Publisher | : Kumarian Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : 9781565494718 |
Draws on interviews in Mozambique, Senegal, South Africa, and Tunisia.