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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Joseph K Folsom |
| OCLC Number: | 294630 |
| Description: | xiii, 604 p. illus. (map) diagrs. 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Part I: The family patterns and its subcultural basis -- I. The family patterns -- II. Basic definitions: culture and the subcultural -- 1. Man -- 2. Society -- 3. Culture -- III. Love and personality formation -- 1. Human needs, satisfactions, and suffering -- 2. The nature and kinds of love -- 3. Frustration and personality change -- IV. Love and social interaction: universal patterns -- Part II: The cultural history and ethnology of the family -- 1. Theories of family evolution -- 2. A survey of cultural variations in the family -- VI. The family in historical and contemporary civilizations -- 1. The history of the Euro-American family -- 2. Modern European family patterns -- 3. Asiatic family patters -- Part III: Social change and the family -- 1. The process of social change -- 2. The changes caused by mechanical invention -- VIII. The social effects of biological and psychological discovery: modern individualism -- Part IV: Family problems and mass readjustments -- IX. The problem of controlling reproduction -- 1. Introduction to family problems in general -- 2. The problem of excessive reproduction -- 4. The problem of dysgenic reproduction -- 4. The problem of insufficient reproduction -- X. The economics of children and the home -- 1. The care of children -- 2. The reorganization of women's labor -- XI. Marriage and mate-finding -- 1. The mating problem: its possible solutions -- 2. Marriage and non-marriage in the light of statistics -- 3. The problem of selecting partners -- 4. Marriage legislation -- XII. Divorce -- 1. Humane divorce as a proposed solution -- 2. Trends in divorce law -- 3. Trends in divorce fact -- XIII. The love mores -- 1. Increasing immorality or changing mores? -- 2. The facts of the change -- 3. The forces involved in the change -- Part V: Family problems and individual adjustments -- 1. The extent and individual causes of marriage failure -- 2. Similarities and differences between mates -- XV. Marital roles, frustrations, and interaction -- 1. Personality patterns and interactional roles -- 2. Marital frustrations -- 3. The marital interaction process -- XVI. The parent-child relation -- 1. Children and their problems -- 2. The interaction between parent and child -- XVII. Education and individual treatment -- Part VI: The cultural future -- XVIII. The future of the family system. |
| Series Title: | Wiley social science series. |
| Responsibility: | by Joseph Kirk Folsom. |
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