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Bahr, Howard Miner was born on February 21, 1938 in Provo, Utah, United States. Son of A. Francis and Louie Jean (Miner) Bahr.
(Much academic writing on families reflects the ideal of n...)
Much academic writing on families reflects the ideal of non-involvement and distanced subject matter. Toward More Family-Centered Family Sciences suggests that the family sciences, in their effort to be scientific, have perpetuated this distance between researcher and subject, to the detriment of both. The authors argue that family and kinship ties are transcendent ties, boundary-crossing in numerous ways. They place an emphasis on family love, in contrast and in addition to romantic love, and criticize current approaches for neglecting the importance of transcendent concepts such as love, commitment, respect, and sacrifice in the development and well being of family structures. Drawing from insights both inside and outside of academia, the authors seek to reincorporate transcendent concepts into the study of the family as a unit of society. They argue for a more collaborative, family-centered family science and offer recommendations for how family researchers might work to change the scientific monologue about families to a systemic dialogue with families.
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This volume covers the remarkably productive first decades of the Franciscan missions to the Navajo, during the ministry of Father Anselm Weber, from the arrival of the first missionaries in 1898 to Fr. Anselm's passing in 1921.
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Continuing where the author's previous volume left off, The Navajo as Seen by the Franciscans, 1920-1950: A Sourcebook picks up the story of one of the great cultural confluences in American history. It reflects, from the standpoint of the Franciscan missionaries, the joining of two starkly different ways of life. The years between 1920 and 1950 were not tame times for the Navajos. They were faced with epidemics, a federal education policy that sometimes fostered "child stealing," the era of stock-reduction and the attendant impoverishment of the entire tribe, Navajo political reorganization, a failed mid-1930s attempt to shift Navajo education from boarding schools to day schools, and continual deep underfunding of Navajo programs until the U.S. Congress, spurred by unprecedented media attention to Navajo poverty, in 1950 passed the Navajo-Hopi Rehabilitation Bill. Consisting of both primary—first-hand accounts of families visited, events observed, and actions taken in which the writer participated directly—and secondary—the historical record based on the writings of others—sources of Franciscan writings, the Franciscan literature sampled in this book mirrors the Navajo of the early and mid-20th century. The texts created by the Franciscans and their associates in the course of their labors, constitute a seldom-quoted, little-read, generally difficult-to-access literature of enormous importance to the history of Navajo-white relations. Many of the Franciscans who came to the reservation stayed there for their entire working lives, spending decades learning the Navajo language and serving the population. Their writings to each other, whether published in mission journals or preserved in their correspondence, present an intimate view of Navajo life as observed by missionaries dedicated to serving the Navajo, burying their dead, serving as their advocates with the institutions of white America, teaching their children, and trying themselves to learn the Navajo language.
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( Middletown Families was first published in 1985. Minnes...)
Middletown Families was first published in 1985. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Fifty years after publication of Robert and Helen Lloyd's classic studies, Middletown (1929) and Middletown in Transition (1937), the Middletown III Project picked up and continued their exploration of American values and institutions. By duplicating the original studies - in many cases by using the same questions - this team of social scientists attempted to gauge the changes that had taken place in Muncie, Indiana, since the 1920s. In Middletown Families, the first book to emerge from this project, Theodore Caplow and his colleagues reveal that many widely discussed changes in family life, such as the breakdown of traditional male/female roles, increased conflict between parents and children, and disintegration of extended family ties, are more perceived than actual. Their evidence suggests that the Middletown family seems to be stronger and more tolerant, with closer bonds and greater marital satisfaction than fifty years ago. Instead of breaking it apart, the pressures of modern society may have drawn the family closer together.
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Continuing where the author's previous volume left off, this book picks up the story of one of the great cultural confluences in American history. It reflects, from the standpoint of the Franciscan missionaries, the joining of two starkly different ways of life. The texts created by the Franciscans and their associates in the course of their labors, constitute a seldom-quoted, little-read, general
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Bahr, Howard Miner was born on February 21, 1938 in Provo, Utah, United States. Son of A. Francis and Louie Jean (Miner) Bahr.
Bachelor of Arts with honors, Brigham Young U., 1962; Master of Arts in Sociology, University Texas, 1964; Doctor of Philosophy, University Texas, 1965.
Research associate, Columbia University, New York City, 1965-1968; visiting lecturer, summer 1968; lecturer in sociology, New York University, 1967-1968; lecturer in sociology, Brooklyn College, City Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, 1967; associate professor sociology, Washington State University, Pullman, 1968-1973; professor, Washington State University, 1972-1973; department chairman rural sociology, Washington State University, 1971-1973; professor sociology, Brigham Young U., Provo, Utah., since 1973; director, Family Research Institute, 1977-1983; fellow, David M. Kennedy, 1992. Visiting professor sociology University of Virginia, 1976-1977, 84-85.
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(Recent Social Trends in the United States, 1960 - 1990, h...)
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(United States -- Social conditions -- 1960-1980.)
( Middletown Families was first published in 1985. Minnes...)
Salvation is eternal life. The ideal of salvation is to live forever as a family in the highest heaven of the celestial kingdom.
Member Society Applied Anthropology, Rural Sociological Association, Science Society Study of Religion.
Married Rosemary Frances Smith, August 28, 1961 (divorced 1985). Children: Bonnie Louise, Howard McKay, Rowena Ruth, Tanya Lavonne, Christopher J., Laura L., Stephen S., Rachel M. Married Kathleen Slaugh, May 1, 1986.
Children: Alden Keith, Jonathan Andrew, Dmitry Michael, Anton Hinckley, Sergei David.