Millways of Kent

by Morland, John Kenneth; Huntley, Dan; Reed, John Shelton

• ISBN13: 9781570037269
• ISBN10: 1570037264
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-04-15
• Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Pr

Summary

The Kent Trilogy, consisting of Blackways of Kent (1955), Millways of Kent (1958), and the previously unpublished Townways of Kent, forms a remarkable southern ethnography that maps the social stratification of the Piedmont mill town of York, South Carolina, in the late 1940s, after the effects of the Great Depression and preceding the coming civil rights era. In 1946 the University of North Carolina's Institute for Research in Social Science commissioned a series of southern community studies under the direction of anthropologist John Gillin from which these volumes resulted.

Author Biography

John Kenneth Morland (1916-2005) was a professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Randolph College in Lynchburg, Virginia John Shelton Reed is the William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Series Editors' Preface	p. xi
New Preface	p. xiii
New Introduction	p. xix
Foreword to the First Edition	p. xxix
Preface to the First Edition	p. xxxv
Studying the Mill-Village Subculture	p. 1
The Setting of the Mill Subculture	p. 11
Cotton Mill as King: Economic Life	p. 28
Kinship as Security: Family Life	p. 54
Learning the Millways: Education	p. 82
Sin and Salvation: Religion	p. 105
Using Leisure Time	p. 152
Town, Country, and Mill	p. 173
Ranking within the Mill Class	p. 206
Personality Development in the Subculture	p. 227
Trends and Prospects	p. 252
Schedule	p. 263
The Story of My Life	p. 265
What God Says about You	p. 272
Summary Comparison of Culture Patterns	p. 275
Afterword: A Conversation with Kenneth and Margaret Morland	p. 281
Index	p. 319
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