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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

Transitions: The Family and the Life Course in Historical Perspective covers a life-course analysis in relation to history and the application of the approach to a common data set for late 19th-century American communities in Essex County, Massachusetts. The book discusses the life-course development in relation to historical change; the historical changes in age configurations along the life course; and the use of demographic scaffolding for analyzing family behavior and life-course transitions. The text also describes models of economic behavior to the historical patterns; the choices that i

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Aging and Generational Relations Over the Life Course -- Kinship and Care for the Aged in Traditional Rural Iberia -- Household Patterns of the Elderly and the Proximity of Children in a Nineteenth Century City -- Verviers, Belgium, 1831-1846 -- "The Life Stairs": Aging, Generational Relations, and Small Commodity Production in Central Europe -- Aging in a Never-Empty Nest: The Elasticity of the Stem Family -- The Family, State Support and Generational Relations in Rural Ireland at the Turn of the Twentieth Century -- Relations Between Older Adults and Their Adult Children in a Nineteenth-Century Italian Town -- Retirement, Inheritance, and Generational Relations: Life-Course Analysis in Historic Eastern Europe -- Gender, Rural-Urban and Socio-Economic Differences in Coresidence of the Elderly with Adult Children: The Case of Sweden 1860-1940 -- Asymmetry in Intergenerational Family Relationships in Italy -- Equity Between Generations in Aging Societies: The Problem of Assessing Public Policies -- Residence and Family Support Systems for Widows In Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Texas -- Living Arrangements of the Elderly in America: 1880-1980 -- The Generation in the Middle: Cohort Comparisons in Assistance to Aging Parents in an American Community -- Fathers and Sons in Rural America: Occupational Choice and Intergenerational Ties Across the Life Course -- The Well-Being of Aging Americans With Very Old Parents -- Exchanges Within Black American Three-Generation Families: The Family Environment Context Model -- The Demography of Family Care for the Elderly -- Types of Supports for the Aged and Their Providers in Taiwan -- Familial Support and the Life Course of Thai Elderly and Their Children -- Intergenerational Support In Sri Lanka: The Elderly and Their Children.

Readers can learn firsthand how weavers perceive their craft and how they interpret their lives and view the world around them. With rare immediacy, this text captures a way of life that is repidly disappearing.

Der Beitrag befasst sich mit der historischen Entwicklung der Familie in den USA des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts. Dabei wird sowohl der über lange Zeit dominierende Mythos der "vorindustriellen Großfamilie" als auch die Annahmen der Anhänger der "Chicago School of Sociology" kritisch hinterfragt, die vertraten, dass industrielle Arbeitsformen traditionelle Verwandtschaftsnetze zerstört hätten. Der modernen Familienforschung ist es indessen gelungen, nachzuweisen, dass die Kernfamilie als familiäre Organisationsform in der vorindustriellen Zeit überwog und auch in den letzten beiden Jahrhunderten eine erstaunliche Kontinuität aufwies. Sie hat auch den komplexen Zusammenhang zwischen Familie und sozialem Wandel herausgearbeitet und richtet sich damit gegen die Auffassung eines linearen Musters von Gesellschaftswandel, wie sie die Modernitätstheorie vertritt. Familienleitbilder der amerikanischen Gesellschaft wurden lange Zeit vom Modell der weißen, protestantischen, angloamerikanischen Familie dominiert, ohne dass die Vielfalt unterschiedlicher Familienmodelle anerkannt wurde. Die Akzeptanz dieses Pluralismus stellt heute eine der zentralen Herausforderungen dar, denen sich Familien und Politiker in den USA stellen müssen. (ICH)