Family Life in Western Societies: A Historical Sociology of Family Relationships in Britain and North America

Abstract

Preface Acknowledgements 1. First principles 2. Family life in the past: continuity and change in four revolutions 3. Maternal care and maternal deprivation 4. Sociological models of western family life in the 1950s 5. Criticisms and critics of the 1950s models 6. Family life and mental illness, especially schizophrenia 7. Exogamy and the avoidance of incest 8. Age-mates and adolescent socialisation 9. Women in employment 10. Careers and couples 11. Social class, social mobility and family life 12. Family life among ethnic minorities 13. Marital adjustment, marital breakdown and divorce 14. Departures and rejections Notes Index.

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