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Zustand: Wie neu. Gr.8°. 77 Seiten. Originalkarton. Einband berieben, papierbedingt gebräunt. - It is often assumed to-day that Britain discovered its so-called ' problem families ' during the evacuation of the cities and the mixing of social classes in the early years of the Second World War. The social contrasts, then made so disconcertingly apparent, undoubtedly gave rise to a wave of public interest in ' the condition of the family '. It would, however, be truer to say that there is a long, though discontinuous, tradition in this country of concern about a segment of families in the population, supposedly characterised by similar traits, and thought to represent a closed, pathological entityin Lidbetter's phrase, ' a race of subnormals '. Since 1941 this ill-defined group has come in for a great deal of attention and investigation. Survey has followed survey. Many remedies have been proposed and some pursued. A variety of measures have been put into practice by voluntary and statutory bodies. Yet, as this book shows, the debate about the ' problem family ' has been conducted in a singularly uncritical manner. Precision in the use of words and in the observation of phenomena has been generally lacking; heterogeneity has been mistaken for homogeneity; biological theories have obscured the study of psychological and sociological factors ; the classification and counting of ' abnormals ' has proceeded regardless of the need to set them in the context of contemporary social norms ; in short, what knowledge has been gained from all these inquiries has not accumulated on any theoretical foundations. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.