Designing Families: The Search for Self and Community in the Information Age / Edition 1

by John Scanzoni

Overview

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 a N historical and cross-cultural perspective tracing the development of the family from the Agricultural Age to the Information Age.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761985662
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	07/13/1999
Series:	Sociology Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

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