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; 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; 3: The Conventional Family Today and Its Future; 5: The Modern Family Today; 6: Critical Contemporary Issues; 7: The Family in the Postmodern Age
Brigitte Berger, presently a professor emerita, has been professor of sociology at Long Island University, Wellesley College, and Boston University. She is author of Societies in Change, and co-author with Peter L. Berger of Sociology: A Biographical Approach, The Homeless Mind: Modernization and Consciousness, and The War over the Family.
-Brigitte Berger clearly signals her perspective on family change
and diversity. She argues that there is one and only one legitimate
form of the family institution. . . . Berger's insistence that the
institutional dimension of family life be given more attention
would surely be palatable to most scholars and policymakers. . . .
Far too little attention has been given to historical changes and
cross cultural variations in family forms and functions. Berger
does, to her credit, spend a considerable portion of the book
examining [this].- --Constance L. Shehan, Contemporary
Sociology
"Brigitte Berger clearly signals her perspective on family change
and diversity. She argues that there is one and only one legitimate
form of the family institution. . . . Berger's insistence that the
institutional dimension of family life be given more attention
would surely be palatable to most scholars and policymakers. . . .
Far too little attention has been given to historical changes and
cross cultural variations in family forms and functions. Berger
does, to her credit, spend a considerable portion of the book
examining [this]." --Constance L. Shehan, Contemporary
Sociology
"Brigitte Berger clearly signals her perspective on family change
and diversity. She argues that there is one and only one legitimate
form of the family institution. . . . Berger's insistence that the
institutional dimension of family life be given more attention
would surely be palatable to most scholars and policymakers. . . .
Far too little attention has been given to historical changes and
cross cultural variations in family forms and functions. Berger
does, to her credit, spend a considerable portion of the book
examining [this]." --Constance L. Shehan, Contemporary Sociology
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