Family and Civilization
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Family and Civilization

  1. 425 pages
  2. English
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Family and Civilization

About this book

In Family and Civilization, the distinguished Harvard sociologist Carle Zimmerman demonstrates the close and causal connections between the rise and fall of different types of families and the rise and fall of civilizations, particularly ancient Greece and Rome, medieval and modern Europe, and the United States. Zimmerman traces the evolution of family structure from tribes and clans to extended and large nuclear families to the smaller, often broken families of today. And he shows the consequences of each structure for bearing and rearing of children, for religion, law, and everyday life, and for the fate of civilization itself. Originally published in 1947, this compelling analysis predicted many of today's controversies and trends concerning youth violence and depression, abortion, and homosexuality, the demographic collapse of the West, and the displacement of peoples. This new edition has been edited and abridged by James Kurth of Swarthmore College. It includes essays on the text by Kurth and Bryce Christensen and an introduction by Allan C. Carlson.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Introduction to the 2008 Edition
  4. Chapter 1: Introduction
  5. Chapter 2: Family Types and Civilization
  6. Chapter 3: Fluctuation of the Family Bond
  7. Chapter 4: From Late Roman to Trustee Familism
  8. Chapter 5: The Trustee Family of the Dark Ages
  9. Chapter 6: Rise of the Modern Domestic Family
  10. Chapter 7: The Rise of Modern Atomism from the Reformation to the Nineteenth Century
  11. Chapter 8: Philosophy and Familism in the Nineteenth Century
  12. Chapter 9: The Nineteenth-Century Atomistic Family
  13. Chapter 10: Disruption of Public Control of Familism
  14. Chapter 11: The Western Family and the Purposes of Family Sociology
  15. Chapter 12: The Dynamics of Familism
  16. Chapter 13: The Trustee Family System—Causal Analysis
  17. Chapter 14: The Domestic Family System—Causal Analysis
  18. Chapter 15: The Atomistic Family System—Causal Analysis
  19. Chapter 16: The Future of Family and Civilization
  20. ‘Family and Civilization’: Carle Zimmerman Confronts the West’s Third Family Crisis
  21. Demography is Destiny: The Fate of the Western Family and Western Civilization
  22. About the Contributors
  23. Notes
  24. Index
  25. Copyright