New Times - New Families

Name: New Times - New Families
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ISBN: 9781402004810

ISBN-10: 1402004818

ISBN-13: 9781402004810

Edition: 2002

Authors: Victoria Carrington

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This work reframes the nuclear family in a way that will challenge traditional theorisations. It takes the reader on a wide-ranging journey towards a new kind of family.

Book details

List price: $54.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Publication date: 1/31/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 161
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 2.112
Language: English



Introduction



Contextualizing Family



Reconstituting Traditional Family


Introduction


Neoliberal reconstitution of `traditional' family in Australia



Apolitical Accounts of the Family-


Introduction


Social Darwinism


Structural Functionalism and the nuclear family


Systems theory



The pre-1970s politicized family


Introduction


Patriarchy and the Western nuclear family-a gift rom God


Marxist approaches


Feminist theory and the family



Critiques from within: Post-1970s modernist critiques and the nuclear narrative


Introduction


An ecosystemic analysis of the nuclear family


Wilden's family


Habitus and symbolic violence


Oedipus and colonization



From Fordist Keynesianism to Neoliberal New Economies



The Boom Years: 1945-1973


Introduction


Nation building


The Keynesian social contract


Family narratives



Capitalism after 1973


Introduction


Ater 1973


The Information Society-fast, late, globalizing capitalism



New Times: New Families



Ethnicity and Race to Interethnicity


Introduction



Interethnicity and Globalization


Introduction


The Australian Context


A generational shift


Geographies of interethnicity



Globalization, Family and Community


Introduction


Globalization and community


Imagined community


Glocalization


New ethnicities and old framings



Symbolic Violence: The shape(ing) of things to come


Introduction


The nationstate response



Landscaping `Family'


Introduction


Conclusion


Reference List


Index