ABSTRACT

This is Volume XVI of Twenty-one in the Class, Race and Social Structure Series. Originally published in 1958, this study looks at the lives of a group of people in a Liverpool slum. Ship Street is a pseudonym as the descriptions in the text are from field work.

chapter |2 pages

Introduction

chapter |9 pages

Chapter I Origin of Ship Street

chapter |11 pages

Chapter II Ship Street Families

chapter |17 pages

Chapter III The Environment

chapter |12 pages

Chapter IV The Power Of The Mum

chapter |16 pages

Chapter V The Children

chapter |10 pages

Chapter VI Adolescence

chapter |12 pages

Chapter VII Sex And Marriage

chapter |11 pages

Chapter VIII Clothes And Food

chapter |9 pages

Chapter IX Associations And Neighbours

chapter |8 pages

Chapter X Status

chapter |11 pages

Chapter XI Crime

chapter |9 pages

Chapter XII Superstition And Religion

chapter |4 pages

Chapter XIII Feuds

chapter |13 pages

Chapter XIV Projection Tests

chapter |9 pages

Chapter XV Projection Tests

chapter |13 pages

Chapter XVI Ship Street Basic Personality

chapter |12 pages

Chapter XVII Organization And Personality

chapter |3 pages

Chapter XVIII Conclusions