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Arland Thornton - Reading History Sideways, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

Reading History Sideways

The Fallacy and Enduring Impact of the Developmental Paradigm on Family Life

Av Arland Thornton

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European and American scholars from the eighteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries thought that all societies passed through the same developmental stages, from primitive to advanced. Implicit in this developmental paradigm - one that has affected generations of thought-was the assumption that one could "read history sideways." That is, one could see what the earlier stages of a modern Western society looked like by examining contemporaneous so-called primitive societies in other parts of the world. In Reading History Sideways, Arland Thornton demonstrates how this approach, though long since discredited, has permeated Western ideas about the family. Further, its domination of social science for centuries caused the misinterpretation of Western trends in family, marriage, fertility, and parent-child relations. Revisiting the "developmental fallacy," Thornton traces its central role in changes in the Western world, from marriage to gender roles to adolescent sexuality. Through public policies, aid programs, and colonialism, it continues to reshape families in non-Western societies as well.
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Arland Thornton is professor of sociology and a research professor at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. He is the author or coauthor of several books, including Marriage and Cohabitation and Social Change and the Family in Taiwan, both also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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"This is a much-needed book about powerful conceptual frameworks that have been profoundly influential for centuries.... Reading History Sideways should be compulsory reading for any scholar working on families, especially demographers and family historians." (Population Studies) "An exceptional work. Arland Thornton's intellectual breadth is remarkable, as is the creativity of his argument and the evidence he marshals for it. His ideas are strikingly original and extremely important, and his argument is careful and thoughtful." (Linda Waite, University of Chicago) "An intellectual feast." (Calvin Goldscheider, Brown University)"

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