Families, History, and Social Change: Life Course and Cross-Cultural Perspectives

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Preface xv
• Acknowledgments xxv
• Part One Family and Kinship Continuity and Change 1
• The History of The Family and the Complexity Of Social Change 3
• 2 The Dynamics of Kin in An Industrial Community 31
• 3 A Complex Relationship Family Strategies and the Processes Of Economic and Social Change 77
• Part Two Studying Lives in Time and Place 103
• 4 Historical Changes In Children's Networks in The Family and Community 105
• 5 Aging And Generational Relations A Historical and Life-Course Perspective 127
• 6 Synchronizing Individual Time, Family Time, And Historical Time 151
• 7 The Generation in the Middle - Cohort Comparisons in Assistance to Aging Parents in an American Community 167
• 8 Rising Above Life's Disadvantage From the Great Depression to War 191
• 9 Changing Images of Aging And the Social Construction Of the Life Course 219
• Part Three Comparative Perspectives 233

• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Preface xv
• Acknowledgments xxv
• Part One Family and Kinship Continuity and Change 1
• The History of The Family and the Complexity Of Social Change 3
• 2 The Dynamics of Kin in An Industrial Community 31
• 3 A Complex Relationship Family Strategies and the Processes Of Economic and Social Change 77
• Part Two Studying Lives in Time and Place 103
• 4 Historical Changes In Children's Networks in The Family and Community 105
• 5 Aging And Generational Relations A Historical and Life-Course Perspective 127
• 6 Synchronizing Individual Time, Family Time, And Historical Time 151
• 7 The Generation in the Middle - Cohort Comparisons in Assistance to Aging Parents in an American Community 167
• 8 Rising Above Life's Disadvantage From the Great Depression to War 191
• 9 Changing Images of Aging And the Social Construction Of the Life Course 219
• Part Three Comparative Perspectives 233
• 10 Between Craft and Industry - The Subjective Reconstruction of the Life Course of Kyoto's Traditional Weavers 235
• 11 The Festival's Work As Leisure - The Traditional Craftsmen of the Gion Festival 261
• 12 Divorce, Chinese Style 285
• Part Four Broader Perspectives 299
• 13 Family Change And Historical Change: An Uneasy Relationship 301
• 14 What Difference Does It Make? 317
• Notes 335
• References 341
• Index 367