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The Developmental Cycle in Domestic Groups

The Developmental Cycle in Domestic Groups

Goody, Jack
Goody, Jack
Goody

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Papers in Social Anthropology, Book 1

AnthropologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 052109660X
ISBN13: 9780521096607
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Oct 31 1971
Pages: 154
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.36 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Social scientists, when making their studies of the structure of family groups, have often observed the current situation of a particular group of families and drawn conclusions from that static picture. Valuable as many of these conclusions may be, they are incomplete because they overlook the important fact that the structure of the family changes. These changes can be fitted into a developmental cycle in which the family or group changes in composition from its original two members to a larger group and finally two again. This book, originally published in 1958, is introduced by a substantial essay and reviews the papers collected here and discusses the theoretical background and implications of the use of the concept of the developmental cycle. The papers each demonstrate how the changing structure of the domestic group may be seen to explain otherwise obscure elements of the particular society.

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