| Family Transformed: Religion, Values, and Society in American Life Contributor(s): Tipton, Steven (Editor), Witte, John (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1589010663 ISBN-13: 9781589010666 Publisher: Georgetown University Press OUR PRICE: $59.35 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2005 Annotation: In a multifaceted analysis of the current state of a complex institution, "Family Transformed" brings together outstanding scholars from the fields of anthropology, demography, ethics, history, law, philosophy, primatology, psychology, sociology, and theology. Demonstrating that the family is both distinctive in its own right and deeply interwoven with other institutions, the authors examine the roles of education, work, leisure, consumption, legal regulation, public administration, and biology in shaping the ways we court and marry, bear and raise children, and make and break family bonds. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Family & Relationships - Religion - Social Science | Sociology - Marriage & Family |
| Dewey: 306.850 |
| LCCN: 2005008374 |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6" W x 9.02" (0.97 lbs) 328 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: As cradle of conscience, matrix of membership, and first school of love and justice, how does the family shape moral meaning and practice in American society today? What do families ask of us in turn to grasp their growing diversity, sustain their coherence, and protect their fragility for our own sake and for the common good of society? This anthology brings together outstanding scholars from a variety of perspectives--anthropology, demography, ethics, history, law, philosophy, primatology, psychology, sociology, and theology--to analyze and assess the current state of the family. Contributors include Robert Bellah, the doyen of American sociology; historian Stephen Ozment; political scientist Jean Bethke Elshtain; Chicago's Don Browning; Princeton's Robert Wuthnow; and so on. The assumption here is that the family is in trouble, and that only by reintegrating families into a just moral order of a larger community and society can we truly strengthen them. That being said, contributors range free over a wide variety of topics: Bellah, for instance, begins the book by arguing that our notion of family must be rethought and broadened to allow same-sex marriages. Ozment demonstrates how the family has been understood throughout European history, proposing that the current "crisis" over families is nothing new. Browning demonstrates how globalization and modernization have actually harmed the family unit in less-developed parts of the world. And so forth. There is not a smoothly integrated, coherent collection of essays, but rather a diverse collection of approaches and issues. Not a sunrise, but bolts of lightening. |