Reading history sideways
the fallacy and enduring impact of the developmental paradigm on family life
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Word Count
78,000 words, Guess
Page Count
312 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL22623734M
- ISBN-100226798607
- OCLC Control Number56051137
- OCLC Control Numberreadinghistorysi0000thor
- Library of Congress Control Number2004017204
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- Goodreads232731
- LibraryThing569628
Classifications
- LCCHQ
Description
"European and American scholars from the eighteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries thought that all societies passed through the same developmental stages, from primitive to advanced. Implicit in this developmental paradigm - one that has affected generations of thought on societal development - was the assumption that one could "read history sideways." That is, one could see what the earlier stages of a modern Western society looked like by examining contemporaneous so-called primitive societies in other parts of the world." "In Reading History Sideways, family scholar Arland Thornton demonstrates how this approach, though long since discredited, has permeated Western ideas and values about the family. Further, its domination of social science for centuries caused the misinterpretation of Western trends in family structure, marriage, fertility, and parent-child relations. Revisiting the "developmental fallacy," Thornton here traces its central role in changes in the Western world, from marriage to gender roles to adolescent sexuality. Through public policies, aid programs, and colonialism, it continues to reshape families in non-Western societies as well."--Jacket.
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