Families, Status and Dynasties: 1600-2000 (Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life)

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. Setting Out On A Journey -- Royal Dynasties -- Noble Dynasties -- Entrepreneurial Dynasties -- The Learned -- Artists -- Statuses On The Move -- Afterthoughts. Riitta Jallinoja. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 293-310) And Index. Annotation This work 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 Front Matter....Pages i-xi Setting Out on a Journey....Pages 1-17 Royal Dynasties....Pages 19-89 Noble Dynasties....Pages 91-150 Entrepreneurial Dynasties....Pages 151-193 The Learned....Pages 195-224 Artists....Pages 225-256 Statuses on the Move....Pages 257-276 Afterthoughts....Pages 277-292 Back Matter....Pages 293-330