Marriage and Modernization

Marriage and Modernization
Author: Don S. Browning
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2003-03-20
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780802811127

The processes of modernization and globalization promise more wealth and health for many people. But they are also a threat to the stability and quality of marriage and family life. This new book -- at once sobering and constructive -- looks at the impact of these processes on marriage and asks what Christianity, in cooperation with other religions, can do to strengthen married life today. Among the deleterious effects of modernization and globalization on marriage are a worldwide drift of men away from the responsibility of parenthood and the tendency of mothers too readily to take on the task of childrearing alone. After looking at recent research on these and other problems, Don Browning suggests that the cure for modern marital disruption entails reforming and reconstructing the institution of marriage while also nurturing relevant forms of social support. Yet the effort to initiate a "world marriage revival" requires a complex cultural work, and Browning explores the key contributions that the religions of the world must make for such an effort to be successful.

Between Sex and Power

Between Sex and Power
Author: Göran Therborn
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2004
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780415300773

The institution of the family changed hugely during the course of the twentieth century. In this major new work, Göran Therborn provides a global history and sociology of the family as an institution and of politics within the family, focusing on three dimensions of family relations: on the rights and powers of fathers and husbands; on marriage, cohabitation and extra-marital sexuality; and on population policy. Therborn's empirical analysis uses a multi-disciplinary approach to show how the major family systems of the world have been formed and developed. Therborn concludes by assessing what changes the family might see during the next century. This book will be essential reading for anybody with an interest in either the sociology or the history of the family.

World Changes in Divorce Patterns

World Changes in Divorce Patterns
Author: William Josiah Goode
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 378
Release: 1993-01-01
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780300173598

This book examines trends in divorce throughout the world, comparing previously inaccessible information on Asian and Arab countries and Eastern Europe, as well as data from Latin America, Western Europe, and the Anglo countries over the last four decades. It discusses are how divorce rates in different countries are affected by industrialisation, dictatorship, civic standards for nations, and easier divorce laws; the relations between divorce and such factors as age and class; the meaning of the worldwide rise in cohabitation; and why people are becoming less likely to remarry.

Changing Patterns of European Family Life

Changing Patterns of European Family Life
Author: Katja Boh
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2023-08-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000920178

Originally published in 1989, this cross-national study investigates the role and pattern of family life in fourteen countries in contemporary Europe. Providing a wealth of information on European families, it is a key source for anyone wishing to understand the changes in the family at that time. The contributors argue that, far from withering away, the family remained a very important social unit which continued to have considerable influence on other social institutions such as the state and the labour market. The central theme is the interrelation between changes in production and working life on one hand, and changes in family life and reproduction on the other. The contributors focus on the pressures and contradictions produced by the division of functions between family and work, and on problems which have arisen as a consequence of the sometimes incompatible and even conflicting demands of the two institutions. They show that the evolution of the nuclear family model in Europe had led to a great diversity of family patterns, and conclude that the family in modern European societies still had a contribution to make which no other institution could provide.

Cliometrics of the Family

Cliometrics of the Family
Author: Claude Diebolt
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2019-01-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3319994808

This contributed volume applies cliometric methods to the study of family and households in order to derive global patterns and determine their impact on economic development. Family and households are a fundamental feature of societies and economies. They are found throughout history and are the place where key decisions on fertility, labour force participation, education, consumption are made. This is especially relevant for the position of women. The book gathers key insights from a variety of fields – economics, history, demography, anthropology, biology – to shed light on the relation between family organisation and the long-term process of economic development.

The Economic Approach to Human Behavior

The Economic Approach to Human Behavior
Author: Gary S. Becker
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2013-02-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 022621706X

Since his pioneering application of economic analysis to racial discrimination, Gary S. Becker has shown that an economic approach can provide a unified framework for understanding all human behavior. In a highly readable selection of essays Becker applies this approach to various aspects of human activity, including social interactions; crime and punishment; marriage, fertility, and the family; and "irrational" behavior. "Becker's highly regarded work in economics is most notable in the imaginative application of 'the economic approach' to a surprising breadth of human activity. Becker's essays over the years have inevitably inspired a surge of research activity in testimony to the richness of his insights into human activities lying 'outside' the traditionally conceived economic markets. Perhaps no economist in our time has contributed more to expanding the area of interest to economists than Becker, and a number of these thought-provoking essays are collected in this book."—Choice Gary Becker was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Science in 1992.

Pattern for World Revolution

Pattern for World Revolution
Author: Ypsilon (pseud.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 500
Release: 1947
Genre: Communism
ISBN:

General staff in Moscow.--Professional revolutionaries.--Decline of world revolution, the end of the Comintern.--Stalintern.

Asian Diasporas

Asian Diasporas
Author:
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2007-11-30
Genre: Asian diaspora
ISBN: 9780804767828

This collection of essays examines the worldwide dispersal of Asian populations and links these seemingly disparate movements through the category of Asian diasporas.

Jessie Bernard Reader

Jessie Bernard Reader
Author: Jessie Bernard
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2015-11-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317257227

Jessie Bernard was one of the foremost early feminist sociologists and public intellectuals in women's studies. In The Jessie Bernard Reader, Michael S. Kimmel and Yasemin Besen have compiled her most intriguing and influential work on marriage, the family, sexuality and changing women's roles in the United States. Bernard's pioneering works bridged the gap between academic social science and public advocacy for gender equality. Her books were landmarks in demarcating the effects of the "separation of spheres." Among her most celebrated arguments was that couples experienced two different marriages, "his" and "hers"-and that his was better than hers. This volume will inspire a new generation of scholars, a generation that inherits the gains for which Bernard struggled her entire career.