The People of Ship Street
eBook - ePub

The People of Ship Street

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The People of Ship Street

About this book

This is Volume XVI of Twenty-one in the Class, Race and Social Structure Series. Originally published in 1958, this study looks at the lives of a group of people in a Liverpool slum. Ship Street is a pseudonym as the descriptions in the text are from field work.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9781136244728
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

INDEX

abortion, 137, 174
acculturation, 179
adolescent, cleanliness, 70, 71
clothes, 69
dancing, 32, 71
jobs, 68
love affairs, 74
rebellion, 75–7
Aladdin, 168
approved school, 29
associations, lack of, 101–24
authoritarianism, 180–1
bachelor son, 44, 45
barrenness, 85
baths, 31
bedtime, 202–3
bedwetting, 56
Bellak, Leopold, 171
Bettelheim, B., 172, 173, 174
birth, 35
blacksmith's striker, 29
Borstal, 10
Bowlby, J. M., 124
Burt, Sir Cyril, 124
cabinet maker, 29
cawl baby, 129
Chapman, Dennis, 2
charms, 129, 132, 169
cheques, 91–2, 93, 100
cinema, 31, 59
clothes, 90–1, 197
Commissioners of Prisons, 187
courts, 121, 122, 123
crime, 26, 118–28
Crutchfield, R. S., 179
cultural lag, 181
cultural misunderstanding, 186
culture pattern, 181
dance bands, 29
dance halls, 30, 32
Dantra, Vera, 2
death, 38, 39, 204
deficiency, 10
delinquency, 61, 172, 173, 178, 179, 201
deprivation, 1, 10, 163
Dobu, 9
dockers, 29
dreams, 134
drivers, 29
drugs, 120, 121
eating, 95–100, 164,165,1...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Full Title
  4. Copyright
  5. CONTENTS
  6. INTRODUCTION
  7. I. ORIGIN OF SHIP STREET
  8. II. SHIP STREET FAMILIES
  9. III. THE ENVIRONMENT
  10. IV. THE POWER OF THE MUM
  11. V. THE CHILDREN
  12. VI. ADOLESCENCE
  13. VII. SEX AND MARRIAGE
  14. VIII. CLOTHES AND FOOD
  15. IX. ASSOCIATIONS AND NEIGHBOURS
  16. X. STATUS
  17. XI. CRIME
  18. XII. SUPERSTITION AND RELIGION
  19. XIII. FEUDS
  20. XIV. PROJECTION TESTS
  21. XV. PROJECTION TESTS
  22. XVI. SHIP STREET BASIC PERSONALITY
  23. XVII. ORGANIZATION AND PERSONALITY
  24. XVIII. CONCLUSIONS
  25. APPENDIX I: FAMILY ROUTINE
  26. APPENDIX II: RORSCHACH TABLE OF MEAN SCORES
  27. INDEX