Abstract
THE development of modern society in the post-War period has been denounced as thoroughly immoral and degenerate; it has been justified as an expansion of the opportunity for self-expression. Dr. Folsom studies the function of the family as an integral part of society and, without expressing an ethical judgment, diagnoses the changes in the circumstances and conditions affecting it as part of this development, according as they conduce to or hinder the proper performance of its function in a healthy community. Conduct which in the ethical judgment would be regarded as immoral, that is, not in accordance with the conventions of modern civilised society, is classified as a maladjustment.
The Family: its Sociology and Social Psychiatry.
By Prof. J. K. Folsom. (Wiley Social Science Series.) Pp. xiii + 604. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1934.) 25s. net.
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Philosophy and Psychology . Nature 135, 387–388 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135387d0
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