Families, Status and Dynasties : 1600-2000

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Jallinoja, Riitta (Author)
Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
SeriesPalgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
Subjects
Social sciences.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Families.
Families > Social aspects.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781137580733
DOI10.1057/978-1-137-58073-3
Physical DescriptionXI, 330 p. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Setting out on a Journey
  • 1. Royal Dynasties
  • 2. Noble Dynasties
  • 3. Entrepreneurial Dynasties
  • 4. The Learned
  • 5. Artists
  • 6. Statuses on the Move
  • 7. Afterthoughts.

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