The (Un)Making of the Modern Family

The (Un)Making of the Modern Family
ISBN-10
0774858524
ISBN-13
9780774858526
Category
Social Science
Pages
512
Language
English
Published
2009-05-01
Publisher
UBC Press
Author
Daniel Dagenais

Description

This book is neither an indictment of the new family nor a rallying cry. It is a classical exercise of family sociology that draws upon a range of disciplines -- history, anthropology, psychology, and demography -- to provide an interpretive model for understanding contemporary changes in the family. It explores traditional family forms in order to identify changes that gave birth to the ideal type of the modern family, and it discusses how the modern family's constituent elements (the family as institution, conjugal and parent-child relationships, and gender and sexuality) relate to modernity's central feature -- the concept of the individual. By reconstructing an archetype of the modern family, this book explains why individuals have experienced its deconstruction as a profound identity crisis.

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