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Emile Durkheim on the Family (Understanding Families, V. 20)by: Mary A. Lamanna
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Abstract<p>"This valuable source for a systematic and comprehensive understanding of Durkheim's ideas on the family constitutes a major addition to the literature on the family, social theory, women's studies, and family law. Highly recommended for upper-division undergraduates and above."</p> <p align="RIGHT">-CHOICE<br /> </p> <b><p>Emile Durkheim on the Family</b> is intended to bring attention to this classical sociologists work on the family. Durkheims writings in this area are little known, but the family was nevertheless one of his primary interests, the subject of an intended book that was never written. Durkheims ideas on the family appear only in scattered sources and a number of those sources have not been translated into English. Durkheims Sociology of the family has not heretofore been presented and analyzed holistically.</p> <p>The purpose of Lamannas book is to bring together Durkheims ideas on the family from diverse sources and to present his family sociology systematically and comprehensively. Quotations from Durkheims writing or speaking enrich the analysis. Durkheims work on the family is situated in its historical context and comparisons are drawn to present-day sociology of the family is situated in its historical context and comparisons are drawn to present-day sociology of the family and family issues. </p> <p>Chapter topics include: </p> <ul> <li>Durkheims life and times </li> <li>His evolutionary theory of the family </li> <li>Methodologies for studying the family </li> <li>The changing relationship of kin </li> <li>Conjugal family and the state </li> <li>The interior of the family </li> <li>Family policy </li> <li>Gender </li> <li>Sexuality</li></ul> <p>An examination of Durkheims work on the family reveals its close connections to his wee-known books and theories. <b>Emile Durkheim on the Family</b> should interest audiences in sociology of the family, social theory, family science, European intellectual history womens studies, legal history, and those generally interested in family studies and / or nineteenth and early twentieth century Europe.</p> <p> </p>
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