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Laddar... Family and Kinship in East London (1957)av Michael Dunlop Young, Peter Willmott (Författare)
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. 28 Jan 2008 - Kidney Research charity shop An excellent Pelican book looking at post-war life in the East End, and contrasting it with life on one of the new estates to which the East End folk were being encouraged to move. Approaching the study of the families like an anthropologist would view exotic societies, it is also a very human, humane and special book - probably partly made so by the fact that one of the researchers lived in the area during the research period. A fascinating book and an important one in the history of sociology and anthropology. A seminal work of British sociology, this book made a massive impression on me when I first read it as a student in the 1970s, mainly because I had family who lived in that part of East London during the 1950s and 1960s, and it painted a detailed and accurate picture of life in Bethnal Green. That world has now gone, but this book is its testimonial. Recommended. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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First published in 1957 ,and reprinted with a new introduction in 1986, Michael Young and Peter Willmott's book on family and kinship in Bethnal Green in the 1950s is a classic in urban studies. A standard text in planning, housing, family studies and sociology, it predicted the failure in social terms of the great rehousing campaign which was getting under way in the 1950s. The tall flats built to replace the old 'slum' houses were unpopular. Social networks were broken up. The book had an immediate impact when it appeared - extracts were published in the newspapers, the sales were Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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We begin with a description of how the families in East London have lived in the preceding decades, the inter-family relationships between husbands and wives, parents and children, husbands and mothers-in-law, wives and mothers-in-law, and mothers and daughters, as well as between the wider family. From the point of view of an anthropologist, we learn the behaviours common to these relationships, the centring of families around the mothers, and the ties and conflicts that typically occur. There is also note of traditions and folk beliefs, and their parallels in other societies. In part two of the book, we find out how the ties of kinship are stretched as many of the residents move out of Bethnal Green to a new development. We hear about the effect on the wider family and structure of the community, and how this in turn feeds back to produce changes in the behaviour of individuals.
This book is mainly based on research carried out by the authors in East London, consisting of surveys and interviews. The topics covered are relatively comprehensive, and provide a good picture of this society, and the changes these have undergone in response to external pressures of the economy, housing availability, and wider social changes. The interviews quoted are frequently revealing and candid, and quite often amusing.
Overall this is a very easy and enjoyable book to read, with a lot of keen observation on the part of the authors, and plenty of humour. As a picture of a broad traditional community that has now changed, it is a valuable record for the historian, the sociologist, the anthropologist, and the general reader with an interest in social history. ( )