EAN: 9781137580726

FAMILIES STATUS AND DYNASTIES - RIITTA JALLINOJ...

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.

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