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New Times: New Families

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Authors:
  1. Victoria Carrington

    1. Graduate School of Education, University of Queensland, Australia

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Contextualizing Family

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Reconstituting Traditional Family

      • Victoria Carrington
      Pages 3-12

    3. Apolitical Accounts of the Family

      • Victoria Carrington
      Pages 13-27

    4. The Pre-1970s Politicized Family

      • Victoria Carrington
      Pages 29-42

    5. Critiques from within: Post-1970s Modernist Critiques and the Nuclear Narrative

      • Victoria Carrington
      Pages 43-61

  3. From Fordist-Keynesianism to Neoliberal New Economies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63
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    2. The Boom Years: 1945–1973

      • Victoria Carrington
      Pages 65-75

    3. Capitalism after 1973

      • Victoria Carrington
      Pages 77-92

  4. New Times: New Families

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93
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    2. Ethnicity and Race to Interethnicity

      • Victoria Carrington
      Pages 95-99

    3. Interethnicity and Globalization

      • Victoria Carrington
      Pages 101-113

    4. Globalization, Family and Community

      • Victoria Carrington
      Pages 115-125

    5. Symbolic Violence: The Shape(ing) of Things to Come

      • Victoria Carrington
      Pages 127-133

    6. Landscaping ‘Family’

      • Victoria Carrington
      Pages 135-144

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 145-161
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About this book

There can be little doubt that ours is a society riding the crest of vast and profound social and economic change. The material conditions and social landscapes through which we experience our lives are increasingly an unchartered sea of unanticipated shift and hidden consequence and many of us have the unsettling feeling that we are out of our depth. It is natural to respond to this rapid and fundamental change with concern, particularly when many of the enduring keystones of our lives have been problematized. Family is one such keystone. Family-and its apparent decline-is a topic of great interest. The breakdown of marriage and other relationships, family roles and responsibilities, the alienation of children, the rights of grandparents, juvenile crime and drug usage, and the emotional fallout of divorce are all current and emotive issues. Few individuals remain untouched by this debate. The changes we are witnessing in relation to family are made all the more worrisome because we have a limited vocabulary for discussing and understanding profound change-a vocabulary characterized by normative framings and assumptions of deficit. It is very easy to look at the changes in 'traditional' family structure and read 'breakdown', 'decline' and 'loss'. A politics of blame and rhetoric of 'reconstitution' very quickly follows. However, given the fundamental nature of contemporary social and economic change, this is not an adequate response.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Graduate School of Education, University of Queensland, Australia

    Victoria Carrington

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: New Times: New Families

  • Authors: Victoria Carrington

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2420-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-0481-0Published: 31 January 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5962-8Published: 15 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-2420-3Published: 14 March 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 161

  • Topics: Sociology of Education, Social Sciences, general, Sociology, general

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