Families, Status and Dynasties : 1600-2000

• Main Author: Jallinoja, Riitta. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Families.; Families > Social aspects.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781137580733
• Physical Description: XI, 330 p. online resource.

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 spous...