The Sociology of Gender and the Family: Middle Class Families

As increased access to employment and educational opportunities brought dramatic changes to women's lives, sociologists began to look at the effect of women's changing roles on their children and families. Based on empirical investigations and personal experience, the studies included in The Sociology of Gender and the Family set of the International Library of Sociology set out to establish patterns and regularities in social behaviour, and to understand the social roles of kinship groups, mothers, wives, children and the elderly. Contents......Page 8 List of Tables......Page 9 List of Diagrams......Page 12 Preface......Page 14 1. Introduction......Page 16 2. Geographical Mobility......Page 31 3. Social Mobility......Page 48 4. The Middle Class Extended Family......Page 65 5. Ceremonial......Page 87 6. The Estates......Page 110 7. An Analysis of an Event......Page 124 8. Towards a Theory of Social Mobility......Page 132 Appendix A: References Cited......Page 140 Appendix B: The Aide Memoire......Page 146 Appendix C: Welsh Speaking......Page 149 Index......Page 152 Sociologists have continued to monitor the effect of women's changing roles on their children and families as their employment opportunities have increased and got better. They also experimented with social behaviour and roles of women today.