The Stranger a Study in Social Relationships / / Margaret Mary Wood.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Wood, Margaret Mary,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1934]; ©1934
• Year of Publication: 1934
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law ; 399
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)

Describes how relationships which are formed when strangers meet are not governed wholly by fortuitous circumstances but that they are closely correlated with social relationships that are already present in the group which the stranger has entered.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Part One. Social Relationships -- I. Social Relationships and Structure -- II. The Extension of Social Relationships -- Part Two. The Stranger and the Social Order -- III. The Obligations of Kinship -- IV. The Principle of Authority -- V. The Principle of Mutual Obligations -- Part Three. The Stranger and the Community Pattern -- VI. Alien Communities -- VII. Isolated Communities -- VIII. Country Communities -- IX. The City -- Part Four. The Stranger and the Specific Situation -- X. The Circumstances of Meeting -- XI. The Evaluation of the Individual -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index