Middletown families : fifty years of change and continuity / Theodore Caplow and Howard M. Bahr [and others].
1982
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Title
Middletown families : fifty years of change and continuity / Theodore Caplow and Howard M. Bahr [and others].
Author
Caplow, Theodore.
ISBN
0816610738
9780816610730
0816614350
9780816614356
9780816610730
0816614350
9780816614356
Publication Details
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©1982.
Language
English
Description
ix, 436 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Call Number
HQ535 .C25 1982
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.8
Note
"Based on the research of the Middletown III project, 1976-1981, under a grant from the National Science Foundation -- T. p. verso.
Includes indexes.
Includes indexes.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-426).
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Table of Contents
Pt. I. Change and continuity
1. The community context
2. Changes in the setting
pt. II. Who does what and how well?
3. Family roles
4. Earning a living
5. Trends in housekeeping
6. The quality of marriage
7. Parents and children
pt. III. Ties that bind
8. Sex in Middletown
9. Kinship
10. Family symbolism in festivals
11. Religion and the family
pt. IV. Middletown and America
12. American families during the twentieth century
13. The myth of the declining family
Appendix A. Tables
Appendix B. Surveys.
1. The community context
2. Changes in the setting
pt. II. Who does what and how well?
3. Family roles
4. Earning a living
5. Trends in housekeeping
6. The quality of marriage
7. Parents and children
pt. III. Ties that bind
8. Sex in Middletown
9. Kinship
10. Family symbolism in festivals
11. Religion and the family
pt. IV. Middletown and America
12. American families during the twentieth century
13. The myth of the declining family
Appendix A. Tables
Appendix B. Surveys.