768 Pages
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Routledge
768 Pages
by
Routledge
768 Pages
by
Routledge
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This is Volume IV of twenty-one in a series on the Sociology of Gender and the Family. Originally published in 1949, this is a development of the author's previous work that recommended action in the areas of 'social psychiatry' or 'individual adjustments'. The focus of the present volume is the study of the needed changes on the societal and cultural level. Individual personality adjustments are studied not as the only thing we can do about it, but as a source of guidance as to what social action is needed.
PREFACE AND PERSONAL NOTE, I. FAMILY REALITIES AND SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT WAYS, II. A WORLD SURVEY OF FAMILY PATTERNS, III. THE FAMILY IN THE GREAT CIVILIZATIONS, IV. THE FAMILY IN AMERICA, V. MODERN SOCIAL CHANGES AFFECTING THE FAMILY, VII. THE FAMILY AND THE EVOLUTION OF DEMOCRACY, VIII. THE POPULATION PROBLEM, X. PERSONALITY AND THE PARENT-CHILD RELATION, XII. PERSONALITY AND MARITAL HAPPINESS, XIII. MARRIAGE INTERACTION, XIV. THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND CONTROL OF MARRIAGE, XV. DIVORCE, XVI. COURTSHIP AND UNMARRIED LOVE, XVII. THE PROBLEM OF THE HOME IN COLLABORATION WITH MARION BASSETT, XVIII. MEN AND WOMEN IN A DEMOCRACY IN COLLABORATION WITH MARION BASSETT, XIX. THE FAMILY AND THE COMMUNITY, XX. UNSOLVED PROBLEMS IN COLLABORATION WITH MARION BASSETT, APPENDIX, INDEX OF NAMES, INDEX OF SUBJECTS
Biography
Joseph K. Folsom
