Family: Socialization and Interaction ProcessThis is Volume VII of fifteen in a series on the Sociology of Gender and the Family. Originally published in 1956, this collection of papers demonstrates the authors’ interest is in the functioning of the modern American family and its place in the structure of our society and that perhaps the most important function of the family lies in its contribution to the socialization of children. In view of this fact an analysis of the family with special reference to its functions as a socializing agency should contribute importantly to our understanding, both of the family itself and of its relations to the rest of the social structure in which it exists. |
Contents
Its Relations to Personality and to the Social Structure | 3 |
Chapter II Family Structure and the Socialization of the Child | 35 |
Chapter III The Organization of Personality as a System of Action | 133 |
Chapter IV The Mechanisms of Personality Functioning with Special Reference to Socialization | 187 |
Chapter V Role Differentiation in Small Decision Making Groups | 259 |
A Comparative Study | 307 |
Levels of Cultural Generality and the Process of Differentiation | 353 |
Appendix A A Note on Some Biological Analogies | 395 |
Appendix B A Note on the Analysis of Equilibrium Systems | 401 |
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Family Socialization and Interaction Process Talcott Parsons,Robert Freed Bales,James Olds Limited preview - 1998 |
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