ABSTRACT
‘I Don’t like neighbours. I just keep to one close neighbour. I A good neighbour is one you can rely on … that you can tell anything to without its going farther.’ This working-class English housewife on a council estate was 21 years of age with a child of 2 https://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> 1 2 https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315007076/438fb140-eaa1-4799-a99a-9ec8739b8d86/content/ineqn1_3_B.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/> years. Clearly, she missed the advice and friendliness of her mother and her mother’s friends for she continued: ‘One who helps you when you haven’t any money. These were the kind of people near my mother’s home where we used to live.’ She wanted a friend badly for she had not yet learnt to stand on her own feet.
