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图书目录: Preface,
1. Introduction Understanding the Family: personal experience; research and analysis / Our Changing Families: outside social factors; personal choice / A Brief Overview CROSS-CULTURAL VARIATIONS 2. Do All of Us Live in Families? Problems of Definition: the Kaingang; the structure-functional approach to definition / Two Working Definitions of the Family / Summary 3. The Web of Kinship Kin Terminology as a Key to Social Structure / Unilinear Kin Groups: two examples; the functions of the kin system in pre-industrial societies / The Nuclear Family in Unilinear Societies / A Brief Examination of Our Own Kinship System / Summary 4. Marriage and Family Structure Sex and Marriage: the regulation of coitus outside marriage; the regulation of mate selection / Marriage and Child Bearing: conception and consummation; the principle of legitimacy / Family Structure: polygyny; polyandry; group marriages; patterns of separateness and togetherness / Summary 5. Time and Circumstance: Theories of Family Change The Historical Record / Early Theories of Family Change / The Ethnographic Record: the Paliau movement / Two Classic Theories of Family Change: Carle Zimmerman; William F. Ogburn / Wilbert Moore on Social Change: A Final Critique / Summary FAMILIES IN AMERICA 6. The Family and the American Class Structure The White Stratification System: the family and social class; the upper classes; the middle classes; the lower classes / The Black Stratification System: the black upper classes; the black middle classes; the black lower classes / Social Mobility and Family Patterns / Summary 7. The White Upper-Middle-Class Family of Suburbia Suburbia: three suburban settings (Park Forest, Old Harbor, Rockland County) / The Functions of the Suburban Middle-Class Family: economic; the balance of power in the family; socialization and education; sex and reproduction; re(igion / Summary 8. A Black Alternative: Coping with Poverty in the Ghetto The Ghetto: poverty and exclusion; family life and poverty; caste victimization and culture / Family Patterns of the Black Underclass: large families and households; sex and survival; marriage; matrifocality and male marginality; problems of parental control; breaking up marriages; personal life styles for coping with poverty / Summary FAMILY DYNAMICS 9. The Family Life Cycle: Development and Crisis Basic Concepts: the family life cycle; developmental tasks / The Developing Family: beginning families; families with children; families in the middle years; aging families / The Family's Capacity to Cope with Crises / Marital Satisfaction and the Life Cycle / Summary 10. The Mating Game Socioeconomic Factors: Homogamy / Psychological Factors: Complementarity / Premarriage and Mate Selection / Problems of Mixed Marriages / Summary 11. Changing Children Culture and Personality / The Process of Acquiring a Way of Life--- Socialization: the preconditions; cases of extreme isolation / Historical Trends in American Child Rearing: Colonial America; 1850-1900; 1900-world war II; post world war II class variations / Child Development Research / How Does Parents' Behavior Affect Their Child's Behavior: oral behavior; dependency; excretory behavior; aggression; an assessment of the data / Conceptual Clarification: models of socialization / Summary THE CRY FOR CHANGE 12. The Sexual Revolution Masculinity and Feminity: the biological base; homosexuality; problems in the cultural definition of sex role / Some Dimensions of the Sexual Revolution: the systematic study of American sexual behavior / Sex and Marriage: marital sexuality; premarital sexuality; extra-marital sexuality / Sex, Sensation, and Spirit: A Redefinition of Western Experience / Summary 13. The Generation Gap Perspectives on the Gap / Changes in the Youth Scene: from privatism to involvement; transformation of the radical left / A Sociological Explanation: decelerating rate of socialization; rapid social change; the problem of identity; institutional problems; summary / The Commune / Summary 14. Careers or the Good Life Urbanization and Family Life Styles: Parsons' isolated conjugal family; modified extended family; women's continuing quest for equality / Culture Against Man: technological driveness; family versus job / Summary 15. Family Planning and Population Control Growth Patterns of the American Family: reproduction and the family; trends in fertility, mortality, and rate of natural increase; social structure and fertility / The Birth Control Movement and Its Opponents: the problem with planned parenthood; life science, science fiction, and fertility control / Summary CHANGING THE FAMILY 16. Pathways in Utopia Oneida: complex marriage; the end of the community, the beginning of the corporation; how was such a community possible? / The Russian Experiment: history; the modern Soviet family; how extensively have Soviet families changed? / The Kibbutzim: history; the kibbutzim family pattern; economic base / Summary 17. Trends and Proposals Projections: methodology; Is the family obsolete? / The Need for Alternatives I Proposals: trial marriage; the human potential perspective; focus on structure; the family in Walden II Afterword Credits Selected Bibliography Index |