Family and Colour in JamaicaEyre & Spottiswoode, 1953 - 196 pages |
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Page 106
... Christian marriage . This distinction between Christian marriage and common law marriage is official and legal but is quite useless sociologically . Domestic group is a term covering all forms of familial relation- ships and in ...
... Christian marriage . This distinction between Christian marriage and common law marriage is official and legal but is quite useless sociologically . Domestic group is a term covering all forms of familial relation- ships and in ...
Page 145
... Christian monogamy , it is Christian marriage which is the ideal in the middle class ; therefore behaviour running counter to this can be regarded as abnormal . In the discussion which follows the two sections of the middle class have ...
... Christian monogamy , it is Christian marriage which is the ideal in the middle class ; therefore behaviour running counter to this can be regarded as abnormal . In the discussion which follows the two sections of the middle class have ...
Page 162
... Christian monogamous marriage for the ideal of that class . That is to say in assessing the lower class forms of the family the norm is held to be Christian monogamous marriage . Children of unions not within that category are held to ...
... Christian monogamous marriage for the ideal of that class . That is to say in assessing the lower class forms of the family the norm is held to be Christian monogamous marriage . Children of unions not within that category are held to ...
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