Research Catalog

Title

The social life of a modern community, by W. Lloyd Warner and Paul S. Lunt.

Author

Warner, W. Lloyd (William Lloyd), 1898-1970.

Publication

New Haven, Yale University Press; London, H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1941.

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Details

Additional Authors

Lunt, Paul S. (Paul Sanborn)

Description

xx, 460 pages illustrations (map), tables, diagrams; 24 cm

Series Statement

Yankee City series, v. 1

Uniform Title

Yankee city series ; v. 1.

Subject

• Cities and towns
• Social classes
• Culture
• Sociology, Urban
• Sociology [MESH]
• Cities
• Social Class
• Culture
• cities
• social classes
• urban sociology
• culture note
• culture (concept)
• Sociology, Urban
• Cities and towns
• Social classes
• Sociale stratificatie
• Lokale gemeenschappen

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliographical foot-notes.

Contents

The genesis of the research -- The conceptual framework -- The field techniques used and the materials gathered -- General description of Yankee City -- How the several classes were discovered -- Class and social structure -- Profiles from Yankee City -- Biological composition of the six classes -- The ethnic minorities of Yankee City -- The houses of Yankee City -- Marriage and the family in Yankee City -- Economic life of the community -- The control of property -- How the six classes spent their money -- The formal and informal associations of Yankee City -- The church and school in Yankee City -- The political structure in the class system -- Reading and other symbolic behavior of the six classes -- The social characteristics of the people of the two upper classes -- The social characteristics of the people of the two middle classes -- The social characteristics of the people of the two lower classes.

LCCN

42002549

OCLC

• ocm00261738
• 261738
• SCSB-8981835

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library