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Les historiens et sociologues nous ont appris à situer la famille par rapport à la ville. C'est un moment de l'histoire famille/ville que Richard Sennett étudie à Chicago ". Dans ce quartier de Union Park touché par le développement urbain, Richard Sennett analyse les interactions de la vie urbaine, de la structure familiale et du vécu professionnel. Cette étude exhaustive des familles d'un quartier, où l'ordinateur sert à la fois le sociologue et l'historien, montre que, contrairement à une opinion largement répandue des deux côtés de l'Atlantique, la famille intense de type nucléaire, forme dominante d'organisation sociale, qui succède à Union Park à une famille étendue et ouverte sur la ville, n'est pas la mieux adaptée aux contraintes de la société.
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Conditions sociales, Famille, Classes moyennes, Middle classes, Middle class families, Family, Chicago, Illinois, Chicago (Ill.), Social conditions, Internet Archive Wishlist, Middle class, united states, Chicago (ill.), social conditions, Families, Middle classPlaces
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Titre original : Families against the city.
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Families against the City portrays the life styles of middle class families in a Chicago community during the decades following the Civil War, when major American cities were experiencing massive development. The study focuses on Union Park, a section of Chicago that had been wealthy and elegant in the early years but gradually became a solidly middle class neighborhood of native-born lawyers, clerks, bookkeepers, and office workers. From three directions, Sennett explores how urban middle class families were structured, and how family structure, work, and the urban community influenced each other over two decades. He finds that the dominant mode of family life was of small “nuclear” units – a father, mother, and one or two children – that tended to withdraw from the city and make their homes places of refuge from the alien and fluctuating world outside. This was a refuge not dominated by the father, whose role was gradually weakening, but by the mother. He shows how this shift in family authority became a poignant source of strain between the generations: the sons looked to their fathers for guidance in dealing with the urban work world, but the fathers were as passive in the larger society as they were in the home. He suggests how this situation could have formed the root of that feeling of “father absence” and “mother-centered homes” which psychologists remark in modern, urban, middle class families.
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