Designing Families

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John Scanzoni - University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

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Sociology of Family

July 1999 | 288 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

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Designing Families is a thought-provoking examination of the challenges facing the nuclear family as it enters the new millenium. John Scanzoni sets the issue of change in families in aN historical and cross-cultural perspective tracing the development of the family from the Agricultural Age to the Information Age.

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New Families - New Ideas

PART ONE: DESIGNING FAMILIES PAST AND PRESENT

An Unfinished Revolution

The 1940s Nonconnected Family Style

A Continuing Revolution

The 1950s to the Present

Cohousing as Family Reform

PART TWO: INVENTING THE FUTURE BY COMPLETING THE REVOLUTION

Empowering Women

Balancing the Private and Public Spheres

Empowering Children and Youth

Making Parenting Public

Empowering the Community

Making the Private Political

Conclusion

The Revolution That Never Ends

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