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Social Change and Social Class

Social Change and Social Class Class Social and Social Change PETER MARRIS England cities of THE Africa-crowded, confused, changing overnight-almost defeat In we are used to a man's income and status analysis. Europe judging his furniture. In Africa cannot-or his his home, rather, , by neighbourhood, you if think can. deceive that you only yourself you you of behind the and commercial In the centre offices, Lagos, government lies a ramshackle and drains meander down congested neighbourhood. Open the middle of the narrow lanes and chickens who in the among goats rummage The houses are old and of iron sheets and rusting fading garbage. patched, ochre with a attic here and there out of the red-brown plaster, gabled lurching of the roof. two or three households share a room, Inside, sheeting may single so full of bed and that there is room to down a chair. baggage barely put In so families do but make love, hardly anything quarters cramped, sleep, and store their within doors. A of children on belongings group squat their Arabic them a of the a while teacher takes verse Koran ; porch, through on her her the men a woman in late hair ; afternoon, doorstep plaits neighbour's or http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Comparative Sociology (in 2002 continued as Comparative Sociology) Brill

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0020-7152
eISSN
1745-2554
DOI
10.1163/156854260X00102
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Abstract

Class Social and Social Change PETER MARRIS England cities of THE Africa-crowded, confused, changing overnight-almost defeat In we are used to a man's income and status analysis. Europe judging his furniture. In Africa cannot-or his his home, rather, , by neighbourhood, you if think can. deceive that you only yourself you you of behind the and commercial In the centre offices, Lagos, government lies a ramshackle and drains meander down congested neighbourhood. Open the middle of the narrow lanes and chickens who in the among goats rummage The houses are old and of iron sheets and rusting fading garbage. patched, ochre with a attic here and there out of the red-brown plaster, gabled lurching of the roof. two or three households share a room, Inside, sheeting may single so full of bed and that there is room to down a chair. baggage barely put In so families do but make love, hardly anything quarters cramped, sleep, and store their within doors. A of children on belongings group squat their Arabic them a of the a while teacher takes verse Koran ; porch, through on her her the men a woman in late hair ; afternoon, doorstep plaits neighbour's or

Journal

International Journal of Comparative Sociology (in 2002 continued as Comparative Sociology)Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1960

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