A01=Goran Therborn
Author_Goran Therborn
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cohabitation
comparative kinship systems
control
Creole America
decline
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european
European Family System
Extra-marital Births
family
Feminist Women's Movement
Feminist Women’s Movement
fertility
Fertility Change
Fertility Decline
Fertility Rate
Fertility Rates
gender relations theory
global social change
Hajnal Line
historical demography
informal
Informal Cohabitation
Informal Coupling
Informal Unions
International Women's Year
International Women’s Year
Marriage Boom
Married Woman
Mitchell 1998a
patriarchy transformation
population policy analysis
Sexual Revolution
Socio-sexual Order
system
Tamil Nadu
twentieth century family structures
UN
West Germany
western
Western European Family
Wife
World Fertility Surveys
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780415300780
- Weight: 730g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 12 Feb 2004
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The institution of the family changed hugely during the course of the twentieth century. In this major new work, Göran Therborn provides a global history and sociology of the family as an institution and of politics within the family, focusing on three dimensions of family relations: on the rights and powers of fathers and husbands; on marriage, cohabitation and extra-marital sexuality; and on population policy. Therborn's empirical analysis uses a multi-disciplinary approach to show how the major family systems of the world have been formed and developed. Therborn concludes by assessing what changes the family might see during the next century.
This book will be essential reading for anybody with an interest in either the sociology or the history of the family.
Göran Therborn is Director of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences and University Professor of Sociology at Uppsala University.
