James H. S. BossardThe Large Family System
An Original Study in the Sociology of Family Behavior
Mitarbeit:Boll, Eleanor Stoker
A leading specialist in the field of family and child behavior, James H. S. Bossard is the author of more than thirty books, including Ritual in Family Living, Marriage and the Child, and Parent and Child. He was Professor of Sociology, William T. Carter Professor of Child Development, and Professor of Sociology in Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. A Research Associate of the William T. Carter Foundation, Eleanor Stoker Boll was Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. She collaborated withJames H. S. Bossard on a number of books.
1. Purpose: What This Book Is About
2. Method: How the Study Was Made
3. Subject: Children in a Hundred Large Families
4. Attitudes and Motives: How Its Members Regard the Large Family
5. Interaction Personal Relations Within the Large Family
6. The Vulnerability of the Large Family
7. Child Rearing in the Large Family
8. Interaction Among the Siblings
9. Interaction Among the Siblings (continued)
10. Personality Patterns Among the Siblings
11. Selected By-products of Large Family Living
12. Family Formation in the Next Generation
13. Marital Happiness of Persons Reared in Large Families
14. The Large Family System
