Titlebook: Mastering Sociology; Gerard O’Donnell Textbook 1985Latest edition Macmillan Publishers Limited 1985 social science.sociology

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Gerard O’Donnellthe ideology of national self-determination. In this ideology, the nation is given a special place alongside democracy. In fact, the two are made interdependent. Without a nation there can be no democracy, since it is the nation which constitutes the people who are given the right of self-determinat

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Development and Characteristics of the Modern Familyy consists of a man and woman who have a steady relationship with each other and who also have children; children are essential to the idea of ‘family’, but they need not necessarily be ‘consanguine’—that is, related by blood to the adults with whom they live—although they usually are. A simple grou

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The Changing Nature of the Modern British Familye reduced this feature of family life still further; sons more rarely follow their Dad down the pit, or get fixed up at the shipyard through an uncle’s influence. The introduction of Labour Exchanges in 1909 had already reduced the need for such family patronage.

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The Stability of the Familythe increasing emphasis on children and partners as individuals; isolation increasing the partners’ importance to each other. But this isolation has made the tasks of husband and wife more difficult and as difficulties increase more people can be expected to fail to overcome them.

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Stratification society as a whole or in certain situations. This position relative to that of other people in the group is called ‘status’ and may be based on many factors such as wealth, heredity, possessions, sex, education, skin colour, job, ‘social worth’ or age. This ‘prestige’ may also depend on particular