Title: The family in the modern age : more than a lifestyle choice /
Authors: Berger, Brigitte, 1928-
Publisher: Transaction Publishers,
Year: 2002
Subjects: Families.; Postmodernism Social aspects.
Abstract: "In The Family in the Modern Age, Berger focuses on four major areas of concern. First, she demonstrates that the short shrift given to the institutional dimension of the family misrepresents the importance and the role of the family today. Second, she documents the close cognitive fit between core elements of the modern family and the stability of modern society, and argues that any society that ignores this connection does so at its own peril. Third, Berger investigates the degree to which currently identified problems may endanger the modern family's vital individual and social functions.
Contents: pt. 1. The assault on the family -- 1. The family : from basic institution to "just another lifestyle" choice -- 2. Modernization and the family : theorists on the road to postmodernism -- pt. 2. The modern family : its nature and history -- 3. The family : the primary institution of individual and social life -- 4. The conventional nuclear family and the rise of the modern world -- pt. 3. The conventional family today and its future -- 5. The modern family today -- 6. Critical contemporary issues -- 7. The family in the postmodern age.