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Author Kerr, Madeline.

Title The people of Ship Street / by Madeline Kerr
Published London : Routledge, 1998

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 215 pages)
Series International library of sociology. Race, class and social structure ; v. 14
Race, class and social structure ; v. 14.
Contents Cover; THE PEOPLE OF SHIP STREET; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; INTRODUCTION; I. ORIGIN OF SHIP STREET; (a) The place; (b) Origin of the group; (c) The finding of the group; (d) Field technique; (e) Discussion of terms; II. SHIP STREET FAMILIES; (a) Structure of the household; (b) Structure of the families; (c) The matrilocal tendency; (d) Illustrations from family records; III. THE ENVIRONMENT; (a) The tie to the locality; (b) Houses and rents; (c) Ship Street and its neighbours; (d) Work; (e) Recreation; (f) Health; IV. THE POWER OF THE MUM; (a) The woman's tie to the Mum
(B) The man's tie to the Mum(c) Economic power of the Mum; (d) The Granny; V. THE CHILDREN; (a) Pregnancy; (b) Weaning and feeding; (c) Toilet training; (d) General discipline; (e) Children's work; (f) Children's income; (g) Naughtiness; (h) Play; VI. ADOLESCENCE; (a) Jobs; (b) Clothes and hair; (c) Cleanliness; (d) Sex education; (e) Love affairs; (f) Adolescent rebellion; VII. SEX AND MARRIAGE; (a) Learning about sex; (b) Attitudes to marriage; (c) Attitudes to size of family and frequency of intercourse; (d) Attitude to barrenness; (e) Attitude to illegitimacy; (f) Attitude to prostitution
VIII. CLOTHES AND FOOD(a) Presents of clothes; (b) Buying clothes; (c) Cheques and clubs; (d) Moneylenders; (e) Eating habits; (f) Individual tastes; IX. ASSOCIATIONS AND NEIGHBOURS; (a) Lack of associations; (b) Duties of neighbours; (c) Friends and lack of friends; (d) Visiting by relatives; X. STATUS; (a) Snobbery; (b) Those who leave Ship Street; (c) Lack of competition; XI. CRIME; (a) In group and out group; (b) Theft; (c) Being sent away; (d) Violence; XII. SUPERSTITION AND RELIGION; (a) Luck; (b) Fatalism; (c) Undifferentiated fear; (d) Intuition and omens; (e) Health; (f) Dreams
(G) ReligionXIII. FEUDS; (a) Examples of feuds; (b) Private justice; XIV. PROJECTION TESTS; I. THE RORSCHACH; (a) Advantage of the Rorschach; (b) The impairment of intellectual ability; (c) Emotional disturbances; (d) Comparison with other Rorschach investigations; XV. PROJECTION TESTS; 2. THE LOWENFELD MOSAIC TEST; (a) Relation between the Rorschach and the L.M.T.; (b) Summary of projection test results; XVI. SHIP STREET BASIC PERSONALITY; XVII. ORGANIZATION AND PERSONALITY; XVIII. CONCLUSIONS; APPENDIX I: FAMILY ROUTINE; (a) Getting up; (b) Midday meal; (c) Tea; (d) Housework
(E) Washing and baths(f) Sundays; (g) Hospitals; (h) Going to bed; (i) Death and funerals; (j) The wedding; (k) The pub; (l) Insurance; APPENDIX II: RORSCHACH TABLE OF MEAN SCORES; INDEX
Summary First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
Notes Includes index
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Subject Slums -- England -- Liverpool -- Case studies
Poor -- England -- Liverpool
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
Poor
Slums
England -- Liverpool
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781136244650
1136244654