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- Title
FAMILY LIFE IN A RURAL COMMUNITY.
- Authors
Alexander, Frank D.
- Abstract
This article discusses family life in a rural community in Tennessee. The Stantonville community is located in the east-central part of McNairy County, Tennessee. The inhabitants of Stantonville are people of the soil most of whom were born on farms. The Stantonville community was studied in great detail for the purpose of portraying the culture of a community selected according to criteria that might yield a study of the tenancy problem which would be particularistic and con- sequently less general than the usual study of tenancy. Of 80 school children from whom information was obtained, 79 percent work in the field regularly during the cropping season, 7 percent help during rush periods, and 14 percent do no field work. Work is the lot of the woman in the Stantonville community. There is no stigma connected with the working of women. Men even boast that their wives help them with the farm work. A striking feature of the economic function of the family is the fact that it is operative within the patriarchal pattern. .
- Subjects
MCNAIRY County (Tenn.); TENNESSEE; UNITED States; FAMILIES; RURAL families; AGRICULTURE; WOMEN'S employment; PATRIARCHY
- Publication
Social Forces, 1940, Vol 18, Issue 3, p392
- ISSN
0037-7732
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2570986