Nice to see this- Todd has long been one of the most effective voices in support of the notion that cross-cultural research consistently reveals strong patterns of action and ideology linked to such things as family structure, and that it is not only acceptable to judge these patterns, but obligatory. There ARE sick societies, and it is possible to describe their genesis, their signatures and the general outlines of their demise.
As a sociologist in the US, I ate it big time when I wrote along a similar vein in the 80's. It was revealed doctrine then that the Sociologist only studied, --did not, EVER, judge. That was because, by any rational standard of judgement, --consumer society in the US looked really, really sick.
As I look up, I see he hangs out on my "actively referred to" shelf like this:

Alexander Cockburn
Roberto Saviano
Fritjof Capra
C. Wright Mills
Emmanuel Todd
Diane Ackerman
Annie Dillard
Noam Chomsky
Neil Postman and Stanley Weingartner
The Chicago Manual of Style

Etc.
Good company, I think.
Would like to read it all.
 

Capitalism searches out the darkest corners of human potential, and mainlines them.