Buch(elektronisch)2018

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

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Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1 Family and Kinship: Continuity and Change -- 1 The History of the Family and the Complexity of Social Change -- 2 The Dynamics of Kin in an Industrial Community -- Introduction -- The Historical Context: Manchester, New Hampshire -- Recruitment and Migration -- Hiring, Placement, and Job Control -- Kin Assistance in Critical Life Situations -- Limitations of Kin Assistance -- Migration and the Continuity of the Kinship System -- Continuities and Discontinuities in the Functions of Kin -- Conclusion -- Appendix: The Data Base -- 3 A Complex Relationship: Family Strategies and the Processes of Economic and Social Change -- Introduction -- The Family in the Process of Industrialization -- Strategies of Kin Assistance -- Family Labor-Force Strategies and the Household Economy -- Whose Strategies Were Family Strategies? -- Conclusion: Long-Term Historical Changes -- Part 2 Studying Lives in Time and Place -- 4 Historical Changes in Children's Networks in the Family and Community -- Introduction -- Demographic Changes Affecting the Position of Children in the Family -- Impact of the Domestic Child-Centered Family on Children's Networks -- Emergence of Institutions and Peer Groups Outside of the Family -- The Segregation of Childhood and Children -- The Return of Diversity -- Implications for Child Development -- 5 Aging and Generational Relations: A Historical and Life-Course Perspective -- Introduction -- The Life-Course Paradigm -- The Timing of Life Transitions -- Myths About the Past -- Coresidence -- Historical Changes in the Timing of Life Transitions -- Interdependence Among Kin -- Generational Supports over the Life Course -- Cohort Differences -- Conclusion