Reading History Sideways The Fallacy and Enduring Impact of the Developmental Paradigm on Family Life

Name: Reading History Sideways The Fallacy and Enduring Impact of the Developmental Paradigm on Family Life
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ISBN: 9780226104461

ISBN-10: 022610446X

ISBN-13: 9780226104461

Edition: 2005

Authors: Arland Thornton

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European and American scholars from the eighteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries thought that all societies passed through the same developmental stages, from primitive to advanced. Implicit in this developmental paradigm—one that has affected generations of thought on societal development—was the assumption that one could "read history sideways." That is, one could see what the earlier stages of a modern Western society looked like by examining contemporaneous so-called primitive societies in other parts of the world.In Reading History Sideways, leading family scholar Arland Thornton demonstrates how this approach, though long since discredited, has permeated Western ideas and values…

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List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 8/2/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 322
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.90" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Introduction and Approaches



Introduction and Overview



Models, Data, and Methods



Influence on Family Scholars



Views of Changes in Family Life from Reading History Sideways



The Fertility Decline in Northwest Europe



Changes in Family Life in the Northwest European Historical Record



The Scholarly Legacy



The Legacy of Data



Influence on Individual and Community Actors



Developmental Idealism



Freedom, Equality, and Consent in Northwest European Family Relationships



Fighting Barbarism in the United States



Government Pathways of Influence outside Northwest Europe



Social and Economic Pathways of Influence outside Northwest Europe



The Power of Developmental Thinking


Postscript: Dealing with the Language of the Developmental Paradigm


References


Index