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Domestic Revolutions
Steven MintzSusan Kellogg
其他書名
A Social History Of American Family Life
出版Simon and Schuster, 1989-04-03
主題History / GeneralSocial Science / Sociology / GeneralHistory / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)
ISBN14391051039781439105108
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=aqC_pjRKSWwC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋An examination of how the concept of “family” has been transformed over the last three centuries in the U.S., from its function as primary social unit to today’s still-evolving model.

Based on a wide reading of letters, diaries and other contemporary documents, Mintz, an historian, and Kellogg, an anthropologist, examine the changing definition of “family” in the United States over the course of the last three centuries, beginning with the modified European model of the earliest settlers. From there they survey the changes in the families of whites (working class, immigrants, and middle class) and blacks (slave and free) since the Colonial years, and identify four deep changes in family structure and ideology: the democratic family, the companionate family, the family of the 1950s, and lastly, the family of the '80s, vulnerable to societal changes but still holding together.