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Sociologie de la famille
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ISBN: 2200213670 9782200213671 Year: 1993 Publisher: Paris : Armand Colin,

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ISBN: 2200311958 9782200311957 Year: 1988 Publisher: Paris Colin

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Sociologie de la famille contemporaine
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ISBN: 2091906352 9782091906355 Year: 2004 Volume: 37 Publisher: Paris : Nathan,

Historical anthropology of the family
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ISBN: 0521257042 0521276705 0511621868 0511868804 9780521257046 Year: 1986 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This historical anthropology of the family represents a new departure in family studies. Over the past ten years or so, the social scientific sociological analysis of the family has undergone a change, and has been obliged to reconsider its traditional view that industrialisation triggered a shift within society from the 'large family', which fulfilled all social functions from socialising the children to caring for the sick and the old, to the modern nuclear family, which was regarded solely as being the locus for emotional relationships. Historians have shown that in the past there was in fact a great variety of different family structures within a wide range of varying demographic, economic and cultural frameworks, distinctive for each society. At the same time, the interaction between sociology and social anthropology has led to a clearer conceptual analysis of that vague, polysemic term 'family'; and notions of dwelling-place, descent, marriage, the relative roles of husband and wife and parent-child relations, as well as the more general relations between generations, have in a variety of past and present social contexts been taken apart and analysed. In this book, Martine Segalen reviews and synthesises a rich wealth of often little-known European and North American historical and social anthropological material on the family. This results in a reversal of the frequently held view of the family as an institution in decline, showing it instead to be both dynamic and resistant.

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