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Families of Dull Children

Part II.—Identifying family types and subcultures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Zena Stein  and
Mervyn Susser
Zena Stein
Affiliation:
Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Manchester
Mervyn Susser
Affiliation:
Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Manchester
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Culture in its anthropological sense has been described as “a configuration of learned behaviour and results of behaviour whose component elements are shared and transmitted by members of a particular society” (Linton, 1936); in other words, a way of life. It has long been understood that more than one type of culture may be found in any one society. All societies are stratified and in an industrial society people of different levels have different ways of life. These are subcultures.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 106 , Issue 445 , October 1960 , pp. 1296 - 1303
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1960 

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