Thornton 2001, The Developmental Paradigm

Ideas of developmental idealism

have contributed to substantial and important family change in the past 200 years.

Mortality decline

Predictor of the decline in fertility

Inalieable rights

of freedom, equality, and consent= attached to all human relationships.

Great family transition

Development was seen as the process that transformed traditional families into modern ones

Ethnocentrism

Northwest Europe viewed itself as the pinnacle of development

Developmental idealism

Ideas of _ informed government policies/programs and citizens thinking

Has a very long history

it was influential in ancient Greece and Rome

Problem

limited historical data

Reading history sideways

historical geography that substituted variations across space for variations across time, thereby converting spatial heterogeneity into homogenous development

Ethnocentrism

northwest Europe viewed itself as the pinnacle of development

1500s-1600s

Acosta, Hobbes, Locke

1700s

Smith, Rousseau, Voltaire, Millar, Trugot, Condorcet, Hume, Ferguson, Maltus

1800s

Comte, Tyler, Maine, Morgan, Spencer, Marx, Durkheim, Westermarck, Le Play

The great family transition

development was seen as the process that transformed traditional families into modern ones

Ideas of developmental idealism

informed government policies/ programs and citizens thinking

Devalopmental idealims

ideational framework

South and Central America

program for the Christianization

China and Soviet Union

based on Marxs ideology

Mass media

mechanism for diffusion

History

The developmental paradigm has very long since it was influential in ancient Greece and Rome

Change

The developmental paradigm sees _ as natural, uniform, necessary, and directional

Studies, ethnography

scholars collected their data through community and

Reading history sideways

Historical geography that substituted variations across space for variations across time, thereby converting spatial heterogeneity into homogenous development

Low

Northwest society saw other societies as having a status for women

Myth

The great family transition was a _

Judging

Northwest Europe became the standard for

Future

Developmental idealism provided a model for the

Ideational

Developmental idealism is an _ framework

Indigenous

In colonies, the developmental paradigm undermined _ family forms

Diffusion

Mass media is a mechanism for _

Change

The developmental paradigm is a model of _ that has been applied at the individual, organizational, and societal levels

Growth, decline

Human beings have stages of +

Cycle

Societies have life stages

Progressing

All societies have different speed of _

Ordered, trajectory

Reading history sideways contemporary societies along the of development

Least

The societies that were different from Europe were seen as _ developed

Northwest Europe

____ _____ societies were less family-organized and more individualistic

Family, modern

Development would transform systems outside northwest Europe from traditional to _

Modern

The substantial decline in marital fertility was due to _ fertility

1800

Almost all the substantial changes occurred after, not before, the early _s

Legitimacy

The developmental histories provided criteria for evaluating the and value of the many existing ways of organizing human society

Relationships

Inalienable rights of freedom, equality, and consent are attached to all human _

Christianization

In South and Central America there were programs for the _

Family

The Developmental Paradigm created the _ planning movement

Education

There was an expansion of mass _ accounting for most of family changes