Peter Marris
Biographic Data
| ID | 205776 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Marris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Marris |
| SIGNATURE | MARRIS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 97 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1958 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Dilemmas of Social Reform
This title is a classic work on social reform. It is an account of the origins and development of community action from its beginnings in the Ford Foundation Gray Area Programs and the President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency, through the rise and decline of the War on Poverty and the Model Cities program. In the ruthlessly impartial examination of various poverty programs, two social scientists one British, one American--explain why program…
Widows and their families
One of the first books to be published in the UK on bereavement, this ground-breaking study presents the results of a survey of widows in London. Focussing on younger women whose husbands had died the book deals first with grief and mourning then examines the consequences of bereavement through the help of relatives and friends and the changes it brings about to the widow's family life. Throughout the book the consequences of widowhood are discus…
Just Rewards
The Politics of Uncertainty
In The Politics of Uncertainty Peter Marris examines one of the most crucial and least studied aspects of social relationships: how we manage uncertainty, from the child's struggle for secure attachment to the competitive strategies of multinational corporations. Using a powerful synthesis of social and psychological theory, he shows how strategies of competition interact with the individual's sense of personal agency to place the heaviest burden…
The politics of uncertainty
In The Politics of Uncertainty Peter Marris examines one of the most crucial and least studied aspects of social relationships: how we manage uncertainty, from the child's struggle for secure attachment to the competitive strategies of multinational corporations. Using a powerful synthesis of social and psychological theory, he shows how strategies of competition interact with the individual's sense of personal agency to place the heaviest burden…
Grief, Loss of Meaning and Society
Meaning and action
Community Planning and Conceptions of Change
Corporatism and Welfare
Social Change and Reintegration
Planning is concerned both with the im pact of social changes and their causes, but lacks a theoretical framework that can integrate these two concerns. Hence, it often seems caught between palliating the hardships of change or protesting against hardships it is powerless to affect. The paper puts forward a way of thinking about adaptation and change in terms of the structuring of meaning. Social pro cesses can be understood as reproducing, reinf…
The Uprooting of Meaning
The Community Devleopment Project
Book reviewed in this article: Coventry Community Development Project 1975: Final report: prosperity and the persistence of inequality . National Community Development Project 1977: The costs of industrial change . National Community Development Project 1977: Gilding the ghetto. The state and the poverty experiments
The meaning of slums and patterns of change
The political economy of urbanization
Loss and Change
Development (Review Article)
The conservative impulse
Loss and Change
Loss & Change
The Classic Slum
African Businessmen
African Businessmen in a Dual Economy
IN a society with marked cultural divisions, these divisions tend to intrude into economic life A racial or religious group dominates in one field of economic activity, while it is virtually excluded elsewhere. This is no accident, for the cultural bond can help to secure the social networks which carry business forward. But these cultural divisions also act as formidable barriers to change, cramping and distorting the evolution of new patterns o…
Urbanization in Nigeria
The social barriers to African entrepreneurship
No description available
African businessmen
Dilemmas of Social Reform
Family and Social Change in an African City
1. Lagos2. The Grouping of Family Relationships3. The Conduct of Family Affairs4. Marriage5. Children6. The Economy of Central Lagos7. The Slum Clearance Scheme8. The Rehousing Estate9. Rehousing as Social Policy10. Family Life and Social Change
Widows and Their Families
The Classic Slum
Community Planning and Conceptions of Change
The meaning of slums and patterns of change
Slum Clearance and Family Life in Lagos
Slums are amongst the most obtrusive of social evils. Physical squalor catches the eye; the degradation of human dignity shocks the social reformer, civic pride is outraged, the privileged are uncomfortably reminded of the circumstances in which their fellow countrymen must live. To people who do not live in slums, their demolition seems self-evidently desirable. Yet the slum dwellers themselves often bitterly resent being displaced. Where, as in…
Social Change and Reintegration
Planning is concerned both with the im pact of social changes and their causes, but lacks a theoretical framework that can integrate these two concerns. Hence, it often seems caught between palliating the hardships of change or protesting against hardships it is powerless to affect. The paper puts forward a way of thinking about adaptation and change in terms of the structuring of meaning. Social pro cesses can be understood as reproducing, reinf…
African Businessmen in a Dual Economy
IN a society with marked cultural divisions, these divisions tend to intrude into economic life A racial or religious group dominates in one field of economic activity, while it is virtually excluded elsewhere. This is no accident, for the cultural bond can help to secure the social networks which carry business forward. But these cultural divisions also act as formidable barriers to change, cramping and distorting the evolution of new patterns o…
Development (Review Article)
The conservative impulse
The People of Ship Street
Widows and their Families
1. Introduction2. Grief3. Mourning4. Help in Widowhood5. Remarriage6. Family Relationships7. The Principles of Social Insurance8. Income9. Conclusion
Widows and Their Families
Afternoon in the Studios
“It is the end of civilisation, isn’t it?” the Member for Blackfriars observed, waving an unlighted pipe at Krishna’s Bride. She posed in a golden crown and trousers of scarlet muslin, politely offering a lotus to the camera. From the far end of the studio, the Ambassador’s wife
Apathy
i read “Revolution” three or four times, trying to make out the serious ‘immediate policy’ advertised on the back cover of the New Left Review. But what remains in my mind is less a policy than a political allegory, a Pilgrim’s Progress through the 1960’s. The hero
Slum Clearance and Family Life in Lagos
Slums are amongst the most obtrusive of social evils. Physical squalor catches the eye; the degradation of human dignity shocks the social reformer, civic pride is outraged, the privileged are uncomfortably reminded of the circumstances in which their fellow countrymen must live. To people who do not live in slums, their demolition seems self-evidently desirable. Yet the slum dwellers themselves often bitterly resent being displaced. Where, as in…
The City
Family and Social Change in an African City
1. Lagos2. The Grouping of Family Relationships3. The Conduct of Family Affairs4. Marriage5. Children6. The Economy of Central Lagos7. The Slum Clearance Scheme8. The Rehousing Estate9. Rehousing as Social Policy10. Family Life and Social Change
Streaming
Lending Money
In this article, I have put down some very tentative thoughts on loans, firstly as they are used in financing small-scale African enterprises, and secondly as a service that African businessmen give to their customers. These remarks arise out of research in progress, and may well need to be revised when the findings are more complete, and have been analysed. Meanwhile, I hope that what follows will suggest a few ideas in a field of development wh…
Individual Achievement and Family Ties
The paper discusses the findings of research in Nigeria, Kenya, and Britain-with a sideglance at the debate on the Negro family in America-to suggest that people's conception of family relationships adapts readily enough to economic circumstances and does not itself inhibit change. Wlhether the adaptation encourages individualistic achievement may depend more on how people perceive the opportunity structure, and the need for mutual protection, th…
The social barriers to African entrepreneurship
No description available
Dilemmas of social reform poverty and community action in the United States
Dilemmas of Social Reform
Urbanization in Nigeria
African Businessmen in a Dual Economy
IN a society with marked cultural divisions, these divisions tend to intrude into economic life A racial or religious group dominates in one field of economic activity, while it is virtually excluded elsewhere. This is no accident, for the cultural bond can help to secure the social networks which carry business forward. But these cultural divisions also act as formidable barriers to change, cramping and distorting the evolution of new patterns o…
The Classic Slum
African Businessmen
Loss and Change
Loss & Change
Development (Review Article)
The conservative impulse
Loss and Change
The political economy of urbanization
The Community Devleopment Project
Book reviewed in this article: Coventry Community Development Project 1975: Final report: prosperity and the persistence of inequality . National Community Development Project 1977: The costs of industrial change . National Community Development Project 1977: Gilding the ghetto. The state and the poverty experiments
Political science (18 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Law (12 works) · Economics (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Development economics (5 works)