Changing Social Environments in Spain

This book presents several theoretical proposals about social and familial - but alsopolitical and cultural - change in Spain in the transition from the Ancien Regime tothe modern age. The sociocultural reality of the Ancien Regime, based on inequalityand privilege, is redefined through kinship and, both horizontal and vertical, socialrelations. In this way, the transition from the patriarchal to the conjugal familyexplains continuity and change in the context of new social relations that valueindividual merit, the accumulation of capital, and the decisive importance of feelingand emotion.