Overview
- Engages with current and historical debates on class, equality and inequality with a unique focus on status
- Provides a comprehensive overview from the 17th century to the present
- Examines a range of European countries
Part of the book series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life (PSFL)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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About this book
This book takes a novel approach to family, exploring in detail how status is inherited and maintained within families; the process of upward social mobility; and how the roots of social decline start within families. The author also examines how rigidly status equivalence determines choice of spouse. Exceptionally extensive in its coverage, the book ranges from the seventeenth century to the present day, across a large range of European countries and part of the United States, and across several class groups, including royalty, nobility and entrepreneurial dynasties, as well as families of professionals, artists and those in lower ranks. The book also discusses the viability of the central sociological concepts of class and status. The book will be of interest to scholars and students in the areas of family sociology, history, social equality and inequality and class and elitism research.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Riitta Jallinoja is Professor Emerita of Family Sociology at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Her publications include Families and Kinship in Contemporary Europe, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Families, Status and Dynasties
Book Subtitle: 1600-2000
Authors: Riitta Jallinoja
Series Title: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58073-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-58072-6Published: 18 January 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-58073-3Published: 09 January 2017
Series ISSN: 2731-6440
Series E-ISSN: 2731-6459
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 330
Topics: Family, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Social Structure, Social Inequality