ABSTRACT

The classes differ in the range and frequency of their association outside the parish. The norm here is that the higher a class the wider and more frequent are its contacts outside the parish; or to adopt the network image used in Chapter IV, the higher the class the more dispersed is the network of relationships in which it is involved, the lower the class the more contained is its network. 1 The basis of the difference in scale is the former’s relative freedom from having to work to a routine timetable, and ownership of private means of transport and communication, as opposed to the latter’s being tied to a daily job and dependent on public transport.