The Family and Its Future

certain they will always be understood as such by his student readers. Turner frequently tells us why, when what we need to know is, who, how many, when, how often and boring things like that. This book is, like so many American texts, appallingly and myopically ethnocentric. It is also expensive and but a partial introduction to the sociology of the family. And yet because it has a strong line it is preferable to the two other major American texts on the family, by Reiss and by Adams, published recently. Colin Bell

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