The explanation of ideology : family structures and social systems

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The explanation of ideology : family structures and social systems

Emmanuel Todd ; translated by David Garrioch

(Family, sexuality and social relations in past times)

Blackwell, 1988, c1985

  • : pbk

Other Title

Troisième planète

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Translation of: La troisième planète

"English translation first published 1985, first published in paperback 1988"--T.p. verso

Bibliography: p. 200-225

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Some parts of the world are dominated by communism, others by Catholicism or by Islam and yet others by liberal doctrines. Why should this be? And why has communism triumphed in Russia, China and Cuba, yet failed in Poland, Cambodia and Indonesia? No one knows. Certainly no clear answer lies in variation of climate, environment, race or, even, economic development. The argument of this book is that world variations in social ideology and belief are conditioned by family structure. The author analyzes the distribution of family forms throughout the world, and examines the relations between particular structures, and (for example) communism, totalitarianism and individualism, as well as the links between these forms and a variety of social phenomena - illegitimacy, suicide, infanticide, marital stability and inheritance laws. He offers evidence to support the belief that family structures and kinship patterns lie behind the ideologies that have shaped the history of the 20th century.

Table of Contents

  • Democracy and anthropology
  • the seven families
  • community
  • authority
  • the two forms of individualism
  • endogamy
  • asymmetry
  • anomie
  • African systems.

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  • NCID
    BA84376884
  • ISBN
    • 0631154914
  • LCCN
    85000756
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Original Language Code
    fre
  • Place of Publication
    Oxford
  • Pages/Volumes
    230 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
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