The Curious History of Theorizing about the History of the Western Nuclear Family

1993 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Scott Smith
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Family History ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Multiple Functions ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
Popular Image

The history of the family lacks a history. Sociologists and historians rarely cite interpretative literature written before the last third of the twentieth century. Curiously, at least for the discipline of history, recent scholars have seemingly regarded older perceptions as relics of a prescientific past.This foray into intellectual history will demonstrate that ignoring the history of this field also distorts it. My case study considers what is widely regarded as the largest revision in thinking about the history of the family—the complete overthrow of what William J. Goode, the sociologist most credited with its rejection, has derisively called (1970: 6) “the classical family of Western nostalgia.” Kertzer and Hogan (1988: 84) have aptly summarized the chief elements of the interpretation overturned by the revisionists: “Until recently, the popular image of Western family history pictured people as living in large extended family units that had multiple functions. With the advent of industrialization, it was thought, this system was transformed into one characterized by small, nuclear family units having more specialized functions.”

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Whitehead
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Historical Sociology ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
History Of ◽  
Television Film ◽  
Popular Image

The introductory chapter discusses the popular image of the ‘Romantic mad poet’ in television, film, theatre, fiction, the history of literary criticism, and the intellectual history of the twentieth century and its countercultures, including anti-psychiatry and psychoanalysis. Existing literary-historical work on related topics is assessed, before the introduction goes on to suggest why some problems or difficulties in writing about this subject might be productive for further cultural history. The introduction also considers at length the legacy of Michel Foucault’s Folie et Déraison (1961), and the continued viability of Foucauldian methods and concepts for examining literary-cultural representations of madness after the half-century of critiques and controversies following that book’s publication. Methodological discussion both draws on and critiques the models of historical sociology used by George Becker and Sander L. Gilman to discuss genius, madness, deviance, and stereotype in the nineteenth century. A note on terminology concludes the introduction.

Family Structure in Los Angeles, California: 1850–1900

1996 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-39
Author(s):  
Barbara Laslett ◽  
Katherine Nash
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Social History ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Life Patterns ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Relationship

In an overview of recent research on the history of the family, Tamara Hareven (1991) points out that this field of study took its inspiration from developments in historical demography and from the “new social history” of the 1960s. Family historians, like other social historians, had “a commitment to reconstructing the life patterns of ordinary people, to viewing them as actors as well as subjects in the process of change” (ibid.: 95). The flowering of research in this field has provided us with a more detailed understanding of the relationship between social change and family life than was previously available. We have learned, among other things, that rather than a single trajectory of change from extended family life before industrialization to the nuclear family afterward, changes in family organization have rarely been invariant, linear, or unidirectional.

scholarly journals The Study of Awareness of the Family History: Psychological Well-being and Deviant Behavior

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-85
Author(s):  
Y.A. Bondarenko
Keyword(s):  
Family History ◽  
Deviant Behavior ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Psychological Wellbeing ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Correlation Level

This article presents the results of a study on correlation level of psychological wellbeing of the person with the degree of awareness of adolescence of his own family history. The analysis and comparison of existing concepts proposes a new understanding and definition of the phenomenon of family history. Family history is represented as a resource person, the relevance of which is due to occurring socioculture changes. It has been developed and modified by special questionnaire aimed at the study of the level of awareness. In the present study we took 121 people participated. 73 adolescence group of norm, and 48 with deviant behavior. It was found that adolescents knowledgeable in the history of the family history, to maintain contact with the extended family, for which it is studying and maintaining meaningful, characterized by high levels of psychological well-being.

scholarly journals American family slideshows : 1952 - 1967

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer DiCocco
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
History Of Photography ◽  
Print Form ◽  
Popular Medium ◽  
Vernacular Photography ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
Sociological Studies ◽  
Twentieth Century America

Vernacular photography has been a popular topic of research within the platforms of the history of photography and sociological studies and, in its print form, has increasingly seen its value rise in the marketplace. However, the family slideshow has been largely excluded from these various sites of attention. This thesis explores the family slideshow as a cultural product of mid-twentieth-century America. The slideshow is analysed in terms of how it was presented to and consumed by families in the 1950s and 1960s. The main section of this thesis provides an analysis of a case study carried out regarding the slideshow. The case study collected oral histories from four individuals on their experiences with producing and viewing slideshows in the mid-twentieth century. The analysis provides qualitative research on the consumption, production and viewing of the slideshow as a popular medium for family snapshots.

The Japanese in New Caledonia

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 667-703
Author(s):  
Benjamin Hiramatsu Ireland
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Family History ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
Mixed Race ◽  
Internment Camps ◽  
The Family ◽  
Legal Identity ◽  
History Of ◽  
Japanese Subjects

Abstract This article explores the history of the Japanese in New Caledonia at the turn of the twentieth century before considering how the French Pacific empire ordered the incarceration and deportation of nearly all Japanese subjects in New Caledonia to Australian internment camps. Retracing this neglected history through testimonies of descendants of incarcerated Japanese, as well as through archived governmental reports, this study first examines the legal identity of mixed-race Japanese Melanesians (or Nippo-Kanaks) and that of other half-Japanese métis in New Caledonia and then analyzes how French administrators policed the Japanese emigrant population. This article additionally considers the family history of a second-generation Nippo-Kanak daughter who shares a rare perspective on the New Caledonian Japanese whom the French refrained from deporting. Cet article examine l'histoire des Japonais en Nouvelle-Calédonie au début du vingtième siècle avant de considérer comment les autorités de l'Océanie française ordonnèrent l'expulsion de presque tous les sujets japonais en Nouvelle-Calédonie et leur incarcération dans les camps d'internement australiens. Retraçant cette histoire négligée à travers les témoignages des descendants ainsi que des rapports de gouvernement archivés, cet article examine d'abord l'identité légale des métis japonais-mélanésiens, appelés « Nippo-Kanak », et celle d'autres métis japonais en Nouvelle-Calédonie avant d'analyser comment l'administration française maintint l'ordre parmi la population d'émigrants japonais. Cet article s'interroge également sur l'histoire familiale d'une fille nippo-kanak de la deuxième génération qui partage une perspective rare sur les Japonais de Nouvelle-Calédonie que les Français s'abstinrent d'expulser.

There and Back

2019 ◽  
pp. 82-94
Author(s):  
Dave Maund
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Single Family ◽  
The West ◽  
Migration History ◽  
The Family ◽  
West Midlands ◽  
History Of

This paper studies the migration history of the members of a single family, who moved between north Herefordshire and what is now the west Midlands conurbation. The research reported here makes use of oral history and diary evidence to describe the migration decisions made by members of the family, especially in the early and mid twentieth century. It elucidates the role of 'place' and the attraction to particular places in those decisions and provides a case study that exemplifies many of the migration processes which were characteristic of the population of England and Wales at that time.

scholarly journals Awareness of the Family History as a Factor in Psychological Well-being in Adolescence

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 93-105
Author(s):  
T.V. Yakimova ◽  
Y.A. Bondarenko
Keyword(s):  
Family History ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
Supporting Effect ◽  
The Individual

We present the results of the study of connection of psychological well-being of adolescents with their awareness of their own family history. We briefly overview the main trends and individual empirical studies on the influence of family history of psychological well-being of the individual. In the present study, we focuses not on pathological influence of family history, but on its resource and supporting effect during the difficulties of adolescence. The study involved 32 teenagers. The empirical study is based on data obtained using a questionnaire designed to examine the links of teenager with extended family members and his awareness of family history. We found that adolescents who know their family history, have an interest in it and keep in touch with the extended family, are characterized by high values of the level of psychological well-being.

scholarly journals American family slideshows : 1952 - 1967

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer DiCocco
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
History Of Photography ◽  
Print Form ◽  
Popular Medium ◽  
Vernacular Photography ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
Sociological Studies ◽  
Twentieth Century America

Vernacular photography has been a popular topic of research within the platforms of the history of photography and sociological studies and, in its print form, has increasingly seen its value rise in the marketplace. However, the family slideshow has been largely excluded from these various sites of attention. This thesis explores the family slideshow as a cultural product of mid-twentieth-century America. The slideshow is analysed in terms of how it was presented to and consumed by families in the 1950s and 1960s. The main section of this thesis provides an analysis of a case study carried out regarding the slideshow. The case study collected oral histories from four individuals on their experiences with producing and viewing slideshows in the mid-twentieth century. The analysis provides qualitative research on the consumption, production and viewing of the slideshow as a popular medium for family snapshots.

scholarly journals Novel SCN5A p.Val1667Asp Missense Variant Segregation and Characterization in a Family with Severe Brugada Syndrome and Multiple Sudden Deaths

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (9) ◽  
pp. 4700
Author(s):  
Michelle M. Monasky ◽  
Emanuele Micaglio ◽  
Giuseppe Ciconte ◽  
Ilaria Rivolta ◽  
Valeria Borrelli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Testing ◽  
Family History ◽  
Risk Stratification ◽  
Brugada Syndrome ◽  
Electrophysiological Study ◽  
Functional Characterization ◽  
The Family ◽  
Novel Variant ◽  
History Of ◽  
Scn5a Gene

Genetic testing in Brugada syndrome (BrS) is still not considered to be useful for clinical management of patients in the majority of cases, due to the current lack of understanding about the effect of specific variants. Additionally, family history of sudden death is generally not considered useful for arrhythmic risk stratification. We sought to demonstrate the usefulness of genetic testing and family history in diagnosis and risk stratification. The family history was collected for a proband who presented with a personal history of aborted cardiac arrest and in whom a novel variant in the SCN5A gene was found. Living family members underwent ajmaline testing, electrophysiological study, and genetic testing to determine genotype-phenotype segregation, if any. Patch-clamp experiments on transfected human embryonic kidney 293 cells enabled the functional characterization of the SCN5A novel variant in vitro. In this study, we provide crucial human data on the novel heterozygous variant NM_198056.2:c.5000T>A (p.Val1667Asp) in the SCN5A gene, and demonstrate its segregation with a severe form of BrS and multiple sudden deaths. Functional data revealed a loss of function of the protein affected by the variant. These results provide the first disease association with this variant and demonstrate the usefulness of genetic testing for diagnosis and risk stratification in certain patients. This study also demonstrates the usefulness of collecting the family history, which can assist in understanding the severity of the disease in certain situations and confirm the importance of the functional studies to distinguish between pathogenic mutations and harmless genetic variants.

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