FAMILIES, EDUCATION, AND THE STATE IN AMERICA

A View from Anthropology

by

Hervé Varenne
 

The Institute for Urban and Minority Education

Teachers College, Columbia University

1998


CONTENTS



Introduction
 

Part I -- Social Reproduction, Education and the Family

  • The psycho-dynamics of family life
  • The psycho-dynamics of social success
  • The socio-dynamics of every day life in families
  • The place of families in social reproduction


Part II -- Family Processes in the United States

  • Small households and the American nuclear family
  • The social construction of local familial patterns
  • The family beyond the household
  • Families in their interrelationships
Part III -- The Family as Educator
  • School work at home
  • The familial extension of the School
  • The reconstitution of the School in and through families
  • Familiar curricula
  • Familiar curricula and pedagogies


Part IV -- The State of the Family in the American State

Bibliographic Essay

References

October 2002