Rethinking Households : An Atomistic Perspective on European Living Arrangements


Michel. Verdon
Bok Engelsk 1998 · Electronic books.
Annen tittel
Utgitt
London : : Routledge, , 1998.
Omfang
1 online resource (233 p.)
Opplysninger
Description based upon print version of record.. - Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Towards an atomistic set of axioms; Introduction; The ubiquity of collectivistic assumptions; Family, residence, domesticity and households: the parameters of a conceptual morass; An atomistic set of axioms for Western residence; Atomism, neoindividualism and household economics; Residence, no 'principle of social organization'; Atomism applied: some paradigmatic cases; An atomistic view of the Russian multiple family household; An atomistic view of various stem families. - The world we have lost: the medieval English householdThe world we have gained: Canada 1971 1986; Abutia: a different residential logic; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index. - This study offers a radical and multidisciplinary method of examining household formation and recognizes residence as the critical determinant of all household forming practices.
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Dewey
ISBN
041518195X

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