Haven in a Heartless World

Name: Haven in a Heartless World
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ISBN: 9780393313031

ISBN-10: 0393313034

ISBN-13: 9780393313031

Edition: 1995

Authors: Christopher Lasch

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In the American political vocabulary, "family" and "family values" no longer simply evoke pictures of harmonious scenes; they also push our buttons (left and right) about what is wrong with society. One of the earliest and sharpest cultural commentators to investigate the twentieth-century American family, Christopher Lasch argues in this book that as social science "experts" intrude more and more into our lives, the family's vital role as the moral and social cornerstone of society disintegrates-and, left unchecked, so does our political and personal freedom.Mr. Lasch combines an analytic overview of the psychological and sociological literature on the American family with his own…

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List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/17/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 0.56" wide x 0.83" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Preface to the Paperback Edition


Introduction



Social Pathologists and the Socialization of Reproduction



Sociological Study of the Family in the Twenties and Thirties: "From Institution to Companionship"



Roads Not Taken: Challenges to Sociological Orthodoxy



Culture and Personality



Doctors to a Sick Society



The Social Theory of the Therapeutic: Parsons and the Parsonians



The Attack on the Nuclear Family and the Search for "Alternate Life-Styles"



Authority and the Family: Law and Order in a Permissive Society


Notes


Index