Problematical Parents and Critical Children: What Is the Significance of Gunnar and Alva Myrdal's Chequered Family History?
- Martin BulmerAffiliated withDepartment of Sociology, University of Surrey, Guildford
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This short article considers four questions about the lives led by Gunnar Myrdal and Alva Myrdal, world-famous Swedish social scientists. What were the social conditions for the development of their ideas? What implications (if any) did their developing social science theories have for their personal lives? Is consistency a necessary requirement in matching words and deeds? Is there any necessary relationship between the public and private lives of eminent scholars and public figures? All three of their children, Jan, Sissela, and Kaj, have written autobiographical accounts which, directly or indirectly, suggest that the Myrdal family was dysfunctional. The implications of this are explored.
- Problematical Parents and Critical Children: What Is the Significance of Gunnar and Alva Myrdal's Chequered Family History?
International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society
Volume 14, Issue 3 , pp 563-570
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- Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers
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- Gunnar Myrdal
- Alva Myrdal
- dysfunctional family
- social science and personal lives
- Martin Bulmer (1)
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- 1. Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, United Kingdom