| Description |
xi, 413 pages : graphs ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Supplement to American journal of sociology, v. 84. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and indexes. |
| Contents |
Foreword / Matilda White Riley -- Preface / John Demos and Sarane Spence Boocock -- I. Sociology : introduction and overview -- Approaches to social change and the family / Glen H. Elder, Jr. -- II: History : transitions to and from the family -- From apron strings to ABCs : parents, children, and schooling in nineteenth-century Massachusetts / Carl F. Kaestle and Maris A. Vinovskis -- Youth and early industrialization in a Canadian city / Michael B. Katz and Ian E. Davey -- The timing of marriage in the transition to adulthood : continuity and change, 1860-1975 / John Modell, Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., Douglas Strong -- The dynamics of kin in an industrial community / Tamara K. Hareven -- III: Norms and adaptations in family life -- Curing the disease of precocity / Joseph F. Kett -- Sex as symbol in Victorian purity : an ethnohistorical analysis of Jacksonian American / Carroll Smith-Rosenberg -- Old age in early New England / John Demos -- IV: Sociology : commentaries and criticism -- The historical triangulation of family, economy, and education / Neil J. Smelser and Sydney Halpern-- Families, family processes, and economic life : toward systematic analysis of historical research / Rosabeth Moss Kanter -- Age stratification and the changing family / Anne Foner -- Historical and sociological research on the family and the life cycle : methodological alternatives / Sarane Spence Boocock. |
| Subject |
Families -- United States -- History.
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| Added Author |
Demos, John.
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Boocock, Sarane Spence.
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| Added Title |
American journal of sociology.
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| ISBN |
0226142841 |
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9780226142845 |
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0226142868 paperback |
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9780226142869 paperback |
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