Social Change in Modern France : Towards a Cultural Anthropology of the Fifth Republic (Paperback)

Preface; Introduction; Part I. The Breaking-Up of Traditional Class Structures: 1. The bourgeois, the workers and the peasants; 2. The transformation of the social classes: the triumph of the central constellation; Part II. The De-Mystification of the Great National Institutions: 3. The army and the church; 4. Working-class institutions; 5. The national education system; 6. The new national consensus; 7. A village democracy; Part III. The Stages of Life: 8. The strength of kinship; 9. Men and women; 10. Young and old; Part IV. A New Civilisation: 11. Changing lifestyles; 12. The cultural explosion; 13. A moral revolution?; Bibliography; Index.