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- Title
THE GHOSTS OF HOME OWNERSHIP.
- Authors
Dean, John P.
- Abstract
The article discusses the problem associated with home ownership pattern. Social scientists are aware of the way social thinking and cultural institutions from one era sometimes carry over to another in which they are less suited to the changed technological or economic conditions. Despite the maladjustive influence of these carry-overs in hampering the adaptation of our economic institutions to current needs, we seldom have research evidence on just how they impinge on the day-to-day welfare of individual citizens. In the research reported in the article, a few shreds of evidence converge to suggest that two ghosts of the eighteenth century haunt the home ownership pattern: the Protestant ethic; and classical economics. The data are narrow in scope and far from conclusive, but, added to the evidence already accumulated, they lead to question the ways in which home ownership institutions have traditionally operated. In a limited way they indicate how research data from non-housing surveys can be marshalled to throw light on housing folklore and its relation to family welfare.
- Subjects
HOME ownership; HOUSING finance; PROTESTANT work ethic; HOUSING surveys; MATERIAL culture; ORAL tradition
- Publication
Journal of Social Issues, 1951, Vol 7, Issue 1/2, p65
- ISSN
0022-4537
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1540-4560.1951.tb02222.x