SOC 104 Chapter Page 91-96: Week 7 Coontz "We Way We Weren't"
20 Apr 2017
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The way we weren"t - stephanie coontz (page 91-96) Attempts to reproduce any type of family outside of its original-economic context are doomed to fail. ! vicissitudes de nition ! a change of circumstances or fortune, typically one that is unwelcome or unpleasant. Although families face serious problems today, attempts to revolve them through. Traditional family forms & values are ineffective in two ways: ! No single traditional family existed to which we could return & none of the families in the past has had any effective solution for protecting its members from the vicissitudes of socio-economic change. The strengths that we may nd in families of the past were rooted in different social, cultural, and economic circumstances from those that prevail today! American families have always been diverse ! the traditional family (male breadwinner & female homemaker) nuclear ideal only dominated a small portion of our history!
