Families, Status and Dynasties 1600-2000, Hardcover by Jallinoja, Riitta, Lik...

by Riitta Jallinoja

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Families, Status and Dynasties 1, Hardcover by Jallinoja, Riitta, ISBN 1137580720, ISBN-13 9781137580726, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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, th 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. Th also discusses the viability of the central sociological concepts of class and status. Th will be of interest to scholars and students in the areas of family sociology, history, social equality and inequality and class and elitism research.

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan The Limited
• Year: 1600
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9781137580726
• Condition: Fine

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