Book Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedications; Contents; Introduction; Acknowledgements; Tables; Figures; 1. Kinship and Class in Metropolitan Society; 2. Methodology of this Study; 3. Social Character of the Areas and Samples Studied; 4. Kinship Ideology; 5. Factors in Kin Knowledge; 6. Structure of the Kin Universe; 7. Contact with Kin: The Effective Kin Set; 8. Kin Gatherings; 9. Kin Sets and Kin Groups; 10. Kin Terms and Status Relations; 11. Kinship Situations and Concepts; 12. The Quality of Kin Relations; 13. General Aspects; Appendix; Index
Summary
As women began to recieve better opportunities for employment, sociologists started looking at the effect of this on women's children and families. The volumes in this book set out to establish the social roles of groups of women
