1st Edition

Home & Social Status

By Dennis Chapman Copyright 1955
    328 Pages
    by Routledge

    328 Pages
    by Routledge

    This is Volume X of twenty-one in a series on Race, Class and Social Structure. Originally published in 1955, this study includes a number of essays on the topic the sociology of housing which is complicated because it is inextricably entangled with the 'housing problem'. The complex of interrelated matters with which this branch of sociology is concerned includes institutional behaviour, the family social status, property, religion, the law and the state and their relation to architecture, and engineering, sanitary engineering, town planning, public health, medicine and social administration.

    Preface, Contents, 1. The Sociology of Housing, THE FAMILY, THE HOME AND SOCIAL STATUS, 2. Method and Basic Hypotheses, 3. The Establishment of the Home, 4. The Home and Patterns of Family Living, 5. The Place of the Child in the Home, 6. The Furnishing and Equipment of the Home as it reflects the Culture, Social Life and Economic Level of the Family', 7. The Measurement of Social Status, 8. The Validation of the Social Status Scale, 9. The Relationship between Status Score and Some Other Variables, 10. Social Status and Changes of Residence, 11. Recapitulation, 'CONVENIENCE', 12. 'Convenience'-The Measurement of a Desirable Quality in Town Planning, HOUSING APPRAISAL, 13. The Measurement of Housing Quality, 14. The Origin of Appraisal Method, 15. The Revision of the Scale, 16. The Measurement of Occupation, 17. The Appraisal Schedule and its Completion, 18. Some Applications of the Scale, 19. The Relationship between Total Appraisal Score and the Desire to Move, APPENDICES, I. Social Status: the Sample and Comparison with the Census, II. Social Status: instructions to Field Workers, III. Social Status: the Schedule, IV. Social Status: the Application of the Scale to Houses to which access is Refused, V. The Sample in the Scottish Mining Communities Inquiry, VI. Housing Appraisal Schedule, Bibliography, Index

    Biography

    Dennis Chapman