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Secondary Group Relationships and the Pre-eminence of the Family

Secondary Group Relationships and the Pre-eminence of the Family Secondary Group Relationships and the Pre-eminence of the Family NORMAN DENNIS University of Birmingham, England THE family in Britain has been neglected as an object of sociological study. Research since World War II has concentrated on education, industrial sociology, social class, crime, urban life and race relations. The most important work on the family has been of five main sorts. The fall in the number of children parents were willing to bear aroused fears of a popu- lation decline detrimental to national power and influence. Adjustments which unavoidable changes in the age balance of the population would require needed to be investigated. Fears were expressed also that the larger families being produced by the less well educated and the economically less successful meant recruitment from "the sub-men". Interest in these matters resulted in a Royal Commission to investigate trends in fertility, their causes and consequences. Its findings, together with the policies it thought the State should implement, were reported in 1949. A second type of study has been undertaken under the stimulus of anthropo- logy. Young and Willmott explored the extent to which extended kinship networks analogous to those found in primitive societies still persist in modern societyl. 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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Brill
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© 1962 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0020-7152
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1745-2554
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10.1163/156854262X00092
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Secondary Group Relationships and the Pre-eminence of the Family NORMAN DENNIS University of Birmingham, England THE family in Britain has been neglected as an object of sociological study. Research since World War II has concentrated on education, industrial sociology, social class, crime, urban life and race relations. The most important work on the family has been of five main sorts. The fall in the number of children parents were willing to bear aroused fears of a popu- lation decline detrimental to national power and influence. Adjustments which unavoidable changes in the age balance of the population would require needed to be investigated. Fears were expressed also that the larger families being produced by the less well educated and the economically less successful meant recruitment from "the sub-men". Interest in these matters resulted in a Royal Commission to investigate trends in fertility, their causes and consequences. Its findings, together with the policies it thought the State should implement, were reported in 1949. A second type of study has been undertaken under the stimulus of anthropo- logy. Young and Willmott explored the extent to which extended kinship networks analogous to those found in primitive societies still persist in modern societyl.

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

Published: Jan 1, 1962

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