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The Home

Multidisciplinary Reflections

9781786436566 Edward Elgar Publishing
Edited by Antonio Argandoña, Emeritus Professor of Economics and Business Ethics, CaixaBank Chair of Corporate Social Responsibility, IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Barcelona, ​​Spain
Publication Date: 2018 ISBN: 978 1 78643 656 6 Extent: 200 pp
In the first major work to take the home as a center of analysis for global social problems, experts from a variety of fields reveal the multidimensional reality of the home and its role in societies worldwide. This unique book serves as a basis for action by proposing global legislative, political and institutional initiatives with the home in mind.

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In the first major work to take the home as a center of analysis for global social problems, experts from a variety of fields reveal the multidimensional reality of the home and its role in societies worldwide. This unique book serves as a basis for action by proposing global legislative, political and institutional initiatives with the home in mind.
 
The multidisciplinary and integrative approach taken by this book avoids simplistic accounts of the home, studies the value of the home, the service it offers, and its contribution to the wellbeing and prosperity of communities. Reviewing its internal functions and external relationships, the authors connect the themes of family, housing, income and wealth, community, relationships, family policies, socioeconomic setting, culture and history from across the world.
 
Academics studying issues such as family, housing, public and social policy, sociology, urban studies and poverty will benefit from the range of insights this book offers into what the home means worldwide. Policymakers, social organizations and specialized networks working in the areas of family, education, poverty and housing will greatly benefit from the insight and breadth of this research. 
Critical Acclaim
‘The home is an institution at the base of society which impacts individuals’ outcomes and decisions across the life course, from child developmental outcomes to work and retirement decisions. This book is a collection of contributions explaining the role that the home plays in modern society. Its multidisciplinary perspective will enable readers to enlarge their views on the concept of home wearing the hat of a geographer, economist, philosopher, sociologist and medical scientist.’
– Cheti Nicoletti, University of York, UK
Contributors
Contributors: A. Argandoña, M. Bertolaso, H. Burns, A. d’Entremont, M. do Céu Patrão Neves, E.P. Davis, R.M. Lastra, A. Marcos, M. Regnerus, S. Zamagni





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Contents:

Foreword
Bryan Sanderson, Home Renaissance Foundation

Foreword
Carlos Cavallé, Social Trends Institute

Introduction
Antonio Argandoña

1. The home: Multidisciplinary reflections
Antonio Argandoña

PART I Philosophy
2. What is a home? On the intrinsic nature of a home
Alfredo Marcos and Marta Bertolaso

3. Self and others: Home as a cradle of a non-violent relationship
Maria do Céu Patrão Neves

Part II Health Sciences
4. The impact of the home environment on children’s health and cognitive and social development
Sir Harry Burns

PART III Sociology
5. Reproducing homes: Intergenerational transmission of marriage and relationship legacy
Mark Regnerus

PART IV Economics
6. The family and economic theorizing
Stefano Zamagni

7. Pension provision, lifetime financial sustainability, care and dignity in old age: Legal and economic issues
E. Philip Davis and Rosa M. Lastra

PART V Geography
8. Spatial relationality and domesticity: Reality and functions of the home from a human geography perspective
Alban d’Entremont

Index





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