First published in 1954, this title is the report of an inquiry into adolescents’ reactions to their local youth groups. Besides answering the question "Who joins what?" the book describes some of the hopes, pleasures and difficulties of adolescents suggesting the importance of "my friends," the closely-knit set who mean so much.

In the 1950s heated views were sometimes expressed about the alleged social results of married women going out to work. Originally published in 1962 Married Women Working attempts to examine the question objectively. It is based on two studies undertaken over a period of nearly five years in a solidly working-class London district.

First published in 1971, this title was written when multi-storey flats were a popular solution to the world-wide need for mass housing because they could be produced with speed. Original research into this question forms the basis of this book which focuses on Glasgow but gives attention to other examples both in Britain and abroad.

First published in 1967, Time of One’s Own asks the question: How do young Scots spend their free time nowadays? In addition to statistical material the study constantly refers to the ‘how and why’ of the way in which the individual youngster spent their free time.

Written in 1954 and published here for the first time, The Social Background of Delinquency deals with the social climate in which juvenile delinquency crops up time after time. It examines ‘bad’ behaviour among people who could otherwise be classed as ‘normal’ members of ordinary English society.