Haven in a Heartless World: The Family Besieged

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W. W. Norton & Company, 1995 - 230 pagine
One of the earliest and sharpest cultural commentators to investigate the twentieth-century American family, Christopher Lasch argues in this book that as social science "experts" intrude more and more into our lives, the family's vital role as the moral and social cornerstone of society disintegrates--and, left unchecked, so does our political and personal freedom.

Mr. Lasch combines an analytic overview of the psychological and sociological literature on the American family with his own trenchant analysis of where the problem lies.

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Social Pathologists and the Socialization
3
2
22
THE OVERTHROW OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORIES
29
3
44
Culture and Personality
62
5
97
The Attack on the Nuclear Family and the Search
134
8
167
Notes
191
Index
223
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Christopher Lasch (1932-1994), professor of history at the University of Rochester, wrote, among many other works, The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics and the best-selling Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy.

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