The Social Origins of Private Life — The Hidden Architecture of Family Systems
Stephanie Coontz's The Social Origins of Private Life examines the family not as a timeless institution, but as a changing system that connects private identity to economic production, political authority, and social reproduction.
This episode explores how family structures evolved alongside shifts in property ownership, labor systems, and state institutions. Viewed structurally, the modern family emerges not as a refuge from society but as one of the mechanisms through which society reproduces itself.
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