Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read.
Start by marking “The Explanation of Ideology: Family Structure and Social Systems (Family, Sexuality and Social Relations in Past Times)” as Want to Read:
The Explanation of Ideology: Family Structure and Social Systems (Family, Sexuality, and Social Relations in Past Times)
Some parts of the world are dominated by communism, others by Catholicism or by Islam and yet others by liberal doctrines. Why should this be? And why has communism triumphed in Russia, China and Cuba, yet failed in Poland, Cambodia and Indonesia? No one knows. Certainly no clear answer lies in variation of climate, environment, race or, even, economic development. The arg
...more
Paperback
Published
May 1st 1989
by Blackwell Pub
(first published October 3rd 1985)
Friend Reviews
To see what your friends thought of this book,
please sign up.
Reader Q&A
To ask other readers questions about
The Explanation of Ideology,
please sign up.
Be the first to ask a question about The Explanation of Ideology
This book is not yet featured on Listopia.
Add this book to your favorite list »
Community Reviews
(showing 1-42)
Review:
April 2007
A Brief Note on Anthropological Determinism
Most people, I really should stress the very few people, that have actually read Todd take him to be something of an anthropological determinist. But this is not entirely true. For instance, Todd, in writing of Anglo-Saxon individualism (the Absolute Nuclear Family) says:
"An egalitarian culture seeks equality between peoples. An inegalitarian culture tends to decree them superior or inferior. The absolute nuclear family is vague in its ...more
April 2007
A Brief Note on Anthropological Determinism
Most people, I really should stress the very few people, that have actually read Todd take him to be something of an anthropological determinist. But this is not entirely true. For instance, Todd, in writing of Anglo-Saxon individualism (the Absolute Nuclear Family) says:
"An egalitarian culture seeks equality between peoples. An inegalitarian culture tends to decree them superior or inferior. The absolute nuclear family is vague in its ...more
There are no discussion topics on this book yet.
Be the first to start one »
Emmanuel Todd (born 16 May 1951) is a French historian, anthropologist, demographer, sociologist and political scientist at the National Institute of Demographic Studies (INED) in Paris. His research examines the different types of families worldwide and how there are matching beliefs, ideologies and political systems, and the historical events involving these things.
More about Emmanuel Todd...
Other Books in the Series
No trivia or quizzes yet. Add some now »
