Background
Allan Constantine Carlson was born on May 7, 1949, in Des Moines, Iowa, to Harry Bernard, a certified public accountant, and Constance Ann Carlson.
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Allan C. Carlson addressing the Budapest Demographic Forum in 2017
Allan C. Carlson
Allan C. Carlson
Allan C. Carlson
Allan C. Carlson
Allan C. Carlson
639 38th St, Rock Island, IL 61201, United States
In 1971, Carlson received a Bachelor of Arts from Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois.
Athens, OH 45701, United States
Carlson received a Ph.D. from Ohio University in 1972.
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Drawing upon evidence from the fields of history, sociology, psychology, economics, and biology, Allan Carlson offers a number of provocative explanations. He denies that the family is merely changing, and shows how recent trends in marriage, divorce, illegitimacy, and fertility are interconnected, and so pervasive as to warrant the term "crisis." He explores the relationship of the family to the American economy, emphasizing the critical importance of strong families to effective functioning of the market system, as well as the pressures that capitalism brings upon family structure.
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1988
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This book offers a fresh interpretation of American social history, emphasizing the vital role of the family and household autonomy and the joint threats to the family imposed by industrial organization and the state.
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1993
(The self-sufficiency and regional outlook of farm life ch...)
The self-sufficiency and regional outlook of farm life characterized the United States until the Civil War period. With the triumph of the industrial North over the rural South, the expansion of urbanism, and the closing of the frontier, the agrarian sector became an economic and cultural minority. The social benefits of rural life - a sense of independence, commitment to democracy, an abundance of children, stable community life - were threatened. This volume examines the rise of a distinctive agrarian intellectual movement to combat these trends.
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2000
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The Family in America offers a fresh interpretation of American social history, emphasizing the vital role of the family and household autonomy and threats to both imposed by industrial organization and the state. Allan Carlson shows that the United States, rather than being "born modern" as a progressive consumerist society, was in fact founded as an agrarian society composed of independent households rooted in land, lineage, and hierarchy.
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2003
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Sixty years ago, the UN declared the family the natural and fundamental unit of society. Today no one knows what family means. In response to this unprecedented confusion, The Natural Family: A Manifesto defines the family based on universal human experience. Insisting, without apology, on the reality of the natural family, the manifesto issues a personal call to men and women to rediscover the fundamental source of life, joy, and freedom.
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2005
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Fifty years ago, the phrase "family policy" was rarely heard in America. Individual states maintained laws governing marriage, divorce, education, inheritance, and child protection, which regulated the formation, childrearing practices, and dissolution of families. However, these scattered policy issues were not seen as closely related. Until the 1960s, the nuclear family was an institution that was part of the natural life-course expected of most adults. Family meant marriage, children, the establishment of a home, care of the elderly, but perhaps most of all, bonding of the generations.
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2005
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In Third Ways, social historian Allan Carlson tells the story of how different thinkers from Bulgaria to Great Britain created economic systems during the twentieth century that were by intent neither capitalist nor communist. Unlike fascists, these seekers were committed to democracy and pluralism. Unlike liberal capitalists, they refused to treat human labor and relationships as commodities like any other. And unlike communists, they strongly defended private property and the dignity of persons and families. Instead, the builders of these alternative economic systems wanted to protect and renew the “natural” communities of family, village, neighborhood, and parish. They treasured rural culture and family farming and defended traditional sex roles and vital home economies.
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2007
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The institution of marriage has become perilously weak in America. Changes in the law over the past three decades, such as the spread of no-fault divorce and broad acquiescence to cultures of divorce and intentional childlessness, have stripped traditional marriage of important legal supports. Half of all marriages end in divorce and just as many are childless. Conjugal America seeks to recapture the real purposes of marriage and the unchanging nature of this most vital and fundamental human institution.Confronting contemporary issues and drawing heavily on the natural and social sciences, each chapter also reaches into the past to find truths grounded in human experience.
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2007
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The book explores the demographic effects of this transition and asks: did the delay by American evangelicals leaders in accepting birth control have consequences?At the same time, many American evangelicals are rethinking their acceptance of birth control even as a majority of the nation's Roman Catholics are rejecting their church's teaching on the practice. Raised within a religious movement that has almost uniformly condemned abortion, many young evangelicals have begun to ask whether abortion can be neatly isolated from the issue of contraception.
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2011
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The Natural Family Where It Belongs emphasizes the vital bond of the natural family to an agrarian-like household, where the "sexual" merges with the "economic" through marriage and child-rearing and where the family is defined by its material efforts. This agrarianism is alive and well in twenty-first century America and Europe. Allan C. Carlson argues that recreating a family-cantered economy portends renewal of the true democracy dreamed of by Washington, Adams, and Jefferson.
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2014
Allan Constantine Carlson was born on May 7, 1949, in Des Moines, Iowa, to Harry Bernard, a certified public accountant, and Constance Ann Carlson.
In 1971, Carlson received a Bachelor of Arts from Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois, and a Ph.D. from Ohio University in 1972.
Allan served as a member of the Lutheran Council in America's Government Affairs Office from 1975 to 1978. In 1979, he became a lecturer and assistant-to-the-president at Gettysburg College. In 1981, he joined the Rockford Institute. In 1986 he became its President. In 1997 Howard and Allan C. Carlson broke from the Rockford Institute to form the Howard Center. It incorporated the previous Center on Religion and Society, and took over publication of both The Religion and Society Report and The Family In America. Nowadays Allan is the President Emeritus of the center.
Carlson also was appointed to the National Commission on Children by Ronald Reagan in 1988. In 2003, he served on the ISI summer faculty at Oriel College, Oxford. Currently, he is Senior Editor of Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity.
(The book explores the demographic effects of this transit...)
2011(The Natural Family Where It Belongs emphasizes the vital ...)
2014(In Third Ways, social historian Allan Carlson tells the s...)
2007(This book offers a fresh interpretation of American socia...)
1993(The Family in America offers a fresh interpretation of Am...)
2003(Drawing upon evidence from the fields of history, sociolo...)
1988(The self-sufficiency and regional outlook of farm life ch...)
2000(Sixty years ago, the UN declared the family the natural a...)
2005(Fifty years ago, the phrase "family policy" was rarely he...)
2005(The institution of marriage has become perilously weak in...)
2007Allan has labored as a ‘public historian,’ in the sense of seeking to apply historical techniques and wisdom to contemporary issues. Since 1981, though, most of Allan's energy has focused on American subjects. His work in Gaddis’s seminars on the origins of the Cold War developed into a focus on the quest by foreign policymakers for an American identity stable enough to give coherence to their overseas projects. Lengthy essays Foreign Policy and The American Way: The Rise and Fall of the Post-World War II Consensus and Luce, Life, and The American Way appeared in the mid-1980s in the eclectic idea journal This World. In both he tracked the influence of religious thought and organization on the self-perception of Americans. In 2000-2001, Carlson back to addressing this question of American identity again, under the working title The American Way.
In the mid-1980s, Allan turned toward American social history and issues of social policy, most involving the family. Two books emerged - Family Questions: Reflections on the American Social Crisis and From Cottage to Work Station: The Family's Search for Social Harmony in the Industrial Age. Together, these volumes portray the family institution as whipsawed between the ambitions of both the modern, globalizing, corporate economy and the modern state, and critically examine twentieth-century efforts to preserve family autonomy.
One theme that recurs throughout Carlson's writings on the agrarian mind, the American social crisis, and the role of the family in industrial society is the importance of preserving the family unit. Carlson believes that the economic and social future of America depends on the most stable and nurturing family units; and these include a male and female, legally married, and a lot of well-adjusted, productive offspring. He supports legal, political, and social measures that reward such family units and opposes measures that support single or same-sex parents, tax penalties for legally wed couples, and other politics that can erode his concept of the ideal marriage.
Carlson has been a member of the Philadelphia Society, Burpee Natural History Museum, Boy Scouts of America, Rotary Club of Rockford.
Carlson married Elizabeth Cecelia Belin on July 1, 1972. They have four children - Anders, Sarah-Eva, Anna and Miriam.