To Dwell among Friends: Personal Networks in Town and City

by Claude S. Fischer

An analysis of the influence of urban life on society compares and contrasts personal relationships in large cities with those in small towns.

Genres: Sociology

459 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1982

Reviews

[Jonathan]

I think the facts that all the communities included in the survey were in northern California, that none of them was a metropolitan area on the order of NY, LA, or Chicago, and that none of them was predominantly black, seriously compromise the usefulness of the study.