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Family and The State of Theory [книги]
Опубликовано на портале: 28-11-2006
David Cheal
Изд-во: University of Toronto Press, 1991, 213 с.
The book takes a broad comparative approach to the theories analyzed, both in terms
of the empirical examples used (from North America, Europe and Australia) and in
the discussion of how old and new approaches interact with one another. Cheal argues
that it is possible to make the sense contemporary family theory by analyzing its
divisions as the result of different experiences of modernity. These experiences
are described as lying along three axes: first, the opposition between social modernism
and its anti-modernists critics; second, the ideological effects of contradictions
within modernity itself; and the third, the emerging difference modernist idealism
and post-modernist skepticism. Another major theme of the book is the profound impact
of feminism on contemporary family studies, and how this has been the catalyst for
so much rethinking of the subject in recent years.


