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The Australian Family as an Expression of Modernity

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Families in Australia are quintessentially European. They are European in origin, in structure and in demographic characteristics. As also in Europe, the family in Australia is self-consciously examined and analysed, in a way that would be uncharacteristic of most non-European societies. Its place in the social structure is no longer taken for granted, though “common knowledge” typifications of “the family” (Schutz & Luckmann, 1974) still pervade much of the public debate in this International Year of the Family, 1994.

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  1. National Key Centre in Industrial Relations, University of Monash. Australian Institute of Family Studies, Melbourne, Australia

    Don E. Edgar

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  1. Institut d’Etude Politiques de Paris, Centre d’Etude de la Vie Politique Francaise, Paris, France

    Jacques Commaille

  2. Faculté des Sciences Sociales at the Sorbonne, Université de Paris V — René Descartes, Paris, France

    François de Singly

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Edgar, D.E. (1997). The Australian Family as an Expression of Modernity. In: Commaille, J., de Singly, F. (eds) The European Family. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8857-7_8

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