Families, Status And Dynasties: 1600-2000 (palgrave Macmillan Studies In Family And Intimate Life)
by Riitta Jallinoja /
2017 / English / PDF
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This book takes a novel approach to family, exploring in
detail how status is inherited and maintained within families;
the process of upward social mobility; and how the roots of
social decline start within families. The author also examines
how rigidly status equivalence determines choice of spouse.
Exceptionally extensive in its coverage, the book ranges from the
seventeenth century to the present day, across a large range of
European countries and part of the United States, and across
several class groups, including royalty, nobility and
entrepreneurial dynasties, as well as families of professionals,
artists and those in lower ranks. The book also discusses the
viability of the central sociological concepts of class and
status. The book will be of interest to scholars and students in
the areas of family sociology, history, social equality and
inequality and class and elitism research.
This book takes a novel approach to family, exploring in
detail how status is inherited and maintained within families;
the process of upward social mobility; and how the roots of
social decline start within families. The author also examines
how rigidly status equivalence determines choice of spouse.
Exceptionally extensive in its coverage, the book ranges from the
seventeenth century to the present day, across a large range of
European countries and part of the United States, and across
several class groups, including royalty, nobility and
entrepreneurial dynasties, as well as families of professionals,
artists and those in lower ranks. The book also discusses the
viability of the central sociological concepts of class and
status. The book will be of interest to scholars and students in
the areas of family sociology, history, social equality and
inequality and class and elitism research.
