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Family: Socialization and Interaction Process
440 Pages
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Routledge
440 Pages
by
Routledge
440 Pages
by
Routledge
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This is Volume VII of fifteen in a series on the Sociology of Gender and the Family. Originally published in 1956, this collection of papers demonstrates the authors’ interest is in the functioning of the modern American family and its place in the structure of our society and that perhaps the most important function of the family lies in its contribution to the socialization of children. In view... Read more
PREFACE CHAPTER I. The American Family: Its Relations to Personality and to the Social Structure CHAPTER II. Family Structure and the Socialization of the Child CHAPTER III. The Organization of Personality as a System of Action CHAPTER IV. The Mechanisms of Personality Functioning with Special Reference to Socialization CHAPTER V. Role Differentiation in Small Decision-Making Groups CHAPTER VI. Role Differentiation in the Nuclear Family: A Comparative Study CHAPTER VII. Conclusion: Levels of Cultural Generality and the Process of Differentiation.
Biography
Talcott Parsons, Robert F. Bales, in collaboration with James Olds, Morris Zelditch J.r., and Phillip E. Slater
