America's Crisis of Values
America's Crisis of Values

Author: Wayne E. Baker

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780691117942

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This is by far the most complete and comprehensive empirical examination of the topic.

Family Transformed
Family Transformed

Author: Steven M. Tipton

Publisher: Georgetown University Press

Published: 2005-11-18

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9781589013209

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Statistics on the American family are sobering. From 1975 to 2000, one-third of all children were born to single mothers, and one-half of all marriages ended in divorce. While children from broken homes are two to three times more likely to develop behavioral and learning difficulties, two-parent families are not immune to problems. The cost of raising children has increased dramatically, and married couples with children are now twice as likely as childless couples to file for bankruptcy. Clearly, the American family is in trouble. But how this trouble started, and what should be done about it, remain hotly contested. In a multifaceted analysis of the current state of a complex institution, Family Transformed brings together outstanding scholars from the fields of anthropology, demography, ethics, history, law, philosophy, primatology, psychology, sociology, and theology. Demonstrating that the family is both distinctive in its own right and deeply interwoven with other institutions, the authors examine the roles of education, work, leisure, consumption, legal regulation, public administration, and biology in shaping the ways we court and marry, bear and raise children, and make and break family bonds. International in approach, this wide-ranging volume situates current American debates over sex, marriage, and family within a global framework. Weighing mounting social science evidence that supports a continued need for the nuclear family while assessing the challenges posed by new advocacy for same-sex marriage, and delegalized coupling, the authors argue that only by reintegrating the family into a just moral order of the larger community and society can we genuinely strengthen it. This means not simply upholding traditional family values but truly grasping the family's growing diversity, sustaining its coherence, and protecting its fragility for our own sake and for the common good of society.

Core Values in American Life
Core Values in American Life

Author: Arthur G. Neal

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-09-28

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 9781138508613

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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- 1 Introduction and Orientation -- 2 Individualism -- 3 The Pursuit of Happine ss -- 4 Freedom -- 5 Having a Good Marriage -- 6 Consumerism -- 7 Materialism -- 8 Equality of Opportunity -- 9 Technology -- 10 Mastery of the Environment -- 11 National Unity -- Author Index -- Subject Index

The Changes In America's Values
The Changes In America's Values

Author: Setsuko Swilling

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2021-05-07

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13:

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The American society has changed dramatically since the two World War ended. Grab a copy today to find out more! This book is a narrative of the changes in America's values, primarily since WWII. When atomic bombs announced the arrival of science that challenged the security of Newtonian mechanics and as technology distracted us from the importance of ethics and morality, we abandoned or redefined our traditional goals. As we became aware that what we call knowledge is merely an acceptable and useful idea and not a substantial truth, we grow anxious. I offer no absolute plan, but a direction. I intend to reveal some of the many strands of our confusion and thus help clarify the issues that divide us. It is not my intention to tell you what to think but to give you concrete examples to think about. Each chapter focuses on a specific face of American life; together they present a narrative of America's current social dilemma. Like all stories, my book has an "exposition" (Not Too Long Ago, People Knew What They Were About), a "complication" (Then, They Succumbed to the Lures of Technology and Materialism, a "rising action" (And Fell Victim to the Conflicts of the Times), a "climax" (Finally, They Experienced A Fundamental Revolution in Knowledge), a "falling action" (Therefore, We Need to Retool our Minds), and a "resolution" (And to Reestablish Grounded Values). American history, then, especially since WWII, is a dramatic illustration of our ideas about knowledge, ignorance, and faith. It also reveals the confusion rooted in our denial of the paradoxical nature of reality, and by our casual disregard of mortality

American Ways
American Ways

Author: Maryanne Kearny Datesman

Publisher: Pearson Education ESL

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780131500860

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Indhold: Introduction: Understanding the Culture of the United States; Traditional American Values and Beliefs; The American Religious Heritage; The Frontier Heritages; The Heritage of Abundance; The World of American Business; Government and Politics in the United States; Ethnic and Racial Diversity in the United States; Education in the United States; How Americans spend their leisure time; The American Family; American Values at the Crossroads;

The American Ways
The American Ways

Author: Maryanne Kearny Datesman

Publisher: Pearson Education

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780133420159

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Indhold: Introduction; Traditional American Values and Beliefs; The American Religious Heritage; The Frontier Heritages; The Heritage of Abundance; The World of American Business; Government and Politics in the United States; Education in the United States; Leisure Time; The American Family; American Values at the Crossroads;