ABSTRACT
The smallest number of respondents, twelve, developed the style of Easing Through Life With Minimal Involvement. All but one had married, but their commitments to marriage and the family were minimal. All of them worked, or had worked, but their involvement in the World of Work, with one exception, was minimal. It is a style found in all three socioeconomic categories, and one which can be seen in all the age groups in this panel. However, there were eleven men, and only one woman, and we are convinced it is a style which is much more likely to develop around male rather than female roles in this culture. The style is found in all the success categories, and about equally divided among them, with four autonomous-persistent, one autonomous-precarious, four dependent-persistent, and three dependent-precarious. There is, again, variation on the other variables within the style, although in this instance the two dependent categories are rather strikingly associated with anomie, alienation, and isolation.
