Research Catalog

Title

The sociology of the family, by M.C. Elmer.

Author

Elmer, M. C. (Manuel Conrad), 1886-1988

Publication

Boston, Ginn [1945]

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Details

Description

xxii, 519 pages illustrations (maps) diagrams.

Series Statement

[Social science series, ed. by R.M. MacIver]

Uniform Title

Social science series (Ginn and Company)

Subject

• Families
• Nuclear families
• Nuclear families
• Families
• Gezinssociologie

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography at end of each chapter.

Contents

pt. 1. The sociological setting of the family. The sociological significance of the family -- Family organization -- The family as a psychic fact -- pt. 2. Social control of the family. Procedures of social control -- Examples of family organization and social control -- Legal regulation of marriage and the family -- The family and religion -- Eugenics and the family -- pt. 3. Population and the family. Factors in population change -- Trends in marriage and divorce -- Intermarriage : nationality, religion, and race -- pt. 4. Social change and the family. Change in the role of the family -- Economic change and family reorganization -- Changing attitudes and adjustment in marriage -- Family migration -- Social mobility, housing, and changing family life -- pt. 5. Social adjustment of the family. A family standard of living and social control -- Adjustment of family life in time of crisis -- Social aspects of family disorganization -- Adoption and foster homes -- Children of unmarried parents -- Old age -- pt. 6. The socializing process. Education and the home -- Development of personality -- Socialization of the child -- Co-operation of home, school, and other agencies.

LCCN

45005394

OCLC

• ocm00232509
• 232509
• SCSB-155914

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library