Peter Willmott and Michael Young

• Introduction 1. Profile of a Suburb 2. House-Centred Couples 3. Generations Apart 4. Are the Parents Deserted? 5. Growing Old Without Children 6. Mothers and Daughters 7. Class and Family Visiting 8. The Organization of Sociability 9. The Pattern of Friendship 10. The Tensions of Social Class 11. In Conclusion – Life in a Suburb. Appendices: Methods of Sampling; Interviewers’ Instructions and Interview Schedule; Effects of Social Mobility; Additional Tables; Tests of Statistical Significance; List of References. Index.

Review for the original 1960 publication:"The bones of hard-won statistics are astutely given flesh and life by some colourful case-histories … it owes as much to the indigenous tradition of Charles Booth as to Middletown and is suffused with a not wholly disguised humanism which in itself contributes to interested writing and therefore interesting reading." – The Times Literary Supplement

Peter Willmott and Michael Young

• Introduction 1. Profile of a Suburb 2. House-Centred Couples 3. Generations Apart 4. Are the Parents Deserted? 5. Growing Old Without Children 6. Mothers and Daughters 7. Class and Family Visiting 8. The Organization of Sociability 9. The Pattern of Friendship 10. The Tensions of Social Class 11. In Conclusion – Life in a Suburb. Appendices: Methods of Sampling; Interviewers’ Instructions and Interview Schedule; Effects of Social Mobility; Additional Tables; Tests of Statistical Significance; List of References. Index.

Review for the original 1960 publication:"The bones of hard-won statistics are astutely given flesh and life by some colourful case-histories … it owes as much to the indigenous tradition of Charles Booth as to Middletown and is suffused with a not wholly disguised humanism which in itself contributes to interested writing and therefore interesting reading." – The Times Literary Supplement

Peter Willmott and Michael Young

• Introduction 1. Profile of a Suburb 2. House-Centred Couples 3. Generations Apart 4. Are the Parents Deserted? 5. Growing Old Without Children 6. Mothers and Daughters 7. Class and Family Visiting 8. The Organization of Sociability 9. The Pattern of Friendship 10. The Tensions of Social Class 11. In Conclusion – Life in a Suburb. Appendices: Methods of Sampling; Interviewers’ Instructions and Interview Schedule; Effects of Social Mobility; Additional Tables; Tests of Statistical Significance; List of References. Index.

Review for the original 1960 publication:"The bones of hard-won statistics are astutely given flesh and life by some colourful case-histories … it owes as much to the indigenous tradition of Charles Booth as to Middletown and is suffused with a not wholly disguised humanism which in itself contributes to interested writing and therefore interesting reading." – The Times Literary Supplement