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The Explanation of Ideology: Family Structure and Social Systems (Family, Sexuality and Social Relations in Past Times)

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ISBN-13: 978-0631154914
ISBN-10: 0631154914
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Product Details

  • Series: Family, Sexuality and Social Relations in Past Times
  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Blackwell Pub (May 1989)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0631154914
  • ISBN-13: 978-0631154914
  • Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 6.2 x 9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,234,491 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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An amazing book that is, unfortunately, very difficult to find. Todd provides an anthropological definition of family structures and shows how many ideological structures have mapped, with remarkable precision, to certain family structures. There are seven definable family types, which are defined by attitudes towards spouse selection, attitudes towards symmetry in family/social (inheritance & law) relations, and attitudes towards whether married children can live at home. Spouse selection within these families can be decided by custom - usually the preference is cousins - or parents, or the two getting married are free to decide. Laws of inheritance can be egalitarian, non-egalitarian or indifferent. That is the inheritance is either divided equally between all - in practice this usually means all sons, or divided unequally - one son only receives the patrimony, or any which way you please. These family types are defined as follows:

1. Absolute Nuclear Family:

a. Spouse selection: Free, but obligatory exogamy.

b. Inheritance: Indifference - no precise rules, frequent use of wills.

c. Family Home: no cohabitation of married children with their parents.

d. Representative Nations, Peoples, Regions: Anglo-Saxon world, Holland, Denmark.

e. Representative Ideology: Christianity, Capitalism, `Libertarian' Liberalism, and Feminism.

2. Egalitarian Nuclear Family:

a. Spouse selection: Free, but obligatory exogamy.

b. Inheritance: Egalitarian - equality between brothers.

c. Family Home: no cohabitation of married children with their parents.

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