Mattias Larsen

Vulnerable Daughters in India (eBook, PDF)

Culture, Development and Changing Contexts

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Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses the problem of 'missing girls' as intimately linked to a process of change and development in India in which culture plays a significant role. This is a result of an institutional change of the family in which the relative importance of sons has increased.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136515996
• Artikelnr.: 38269471

Autorenporträt

Mattias Larsen is a researcher at the School of Global Studies, Peace and Development Research, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, from where he obtained his PhD. He specializes in the economic sociology of development; his areas of research include rural development, social dimensions of the economy, inequality, gender, institutionalist theory and comparative methodology.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures. List of Tables. Preface. Acknowledgements 1. The Problem
2. Intergenerational Interests and Systematic Case Comparisons 3.
Exploration and Specification of the Context 4. Structural Continuity and
the Role of the Son 5. Contextual Changes in Two Paths to Low CSR 6.
'Structure, Change and Uncertainty. Appendix. Bibliography. About the
Author. Index