Trends of Change in Textbooks on the Family

Textbooks on the family, published by American writers since the Word War, have largely abandoned the ethnological and historical treatment of the subject, which predominated in earlier texts, and have turned toward social problems and personality relationships of family life. Similar trends are evident in articles on the family published in social science periodicals. But courses on the family in colleges and universities have lagged in shifting from the old to the new interests. A group of young mothers, when asked what additional training they wished their college courses might have given them, showed overwhelmigly more interest in the social psychology of family relations than in sociological theory. Courses on the family may well be reconsidered, not merely in the light of pure science, but also in view of the needs and interests of the students, and the trends of modern thought

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• Society on the Edge

  Open Access•Philippe Fontaine, Jefferson D Pooley•Society on the Edge•2020

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