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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, Dec. 8, 1964
Common Law Families Stable French Sociologist Claims
In French slums, unmarried families are sometimes more stable than married ones, said Jean Labbens, professor of sociology at France's Lyons University at a sociology colloquium here last night.
His research was on a slum housing district built for temporary housing by the French government in 1954 to keep people from freezing to death in the winter.
Investigating social workers' reports about the 187 families in the district outside Paris called "Le Camp," it was found that 37 per cent of the families were unmarried couples.
"In many of the families the man plays the role of a paying guest," Professor Labbens said.
"THE MAN doesn't contribute all his money to the support of the family and has nothing to do with the education of the children," he said.
"Usually the woman of the family plays a dominant role. Quite often the man takes her name."
AT THE START of the investigation Professor Labbens said he was concentrating on the "fallen" family. This is one that moved into the district because of unemployment, illness or economic difficulty.
"In the married families the man is very dominant and the wife must obey. That is where some of the friction starts." he said.
Only six per cent of the families had fallen from higher economic situations, he discovered.
He found that 94 per cent of the families of the district had come from homes of similar backgrounds.
"The salary for 90 per cent of the workers in the district is from nothing to $40 a month," he said.
Most of the families in "Le Camp" had relations similar throughout France.
"THE POOR FAMILIES of France are intermarried like royal families.
"Unemployment and low income are the reasons most of the people stay in the district," he said.
Department Announces New Degree
By Mary Dunlap
A new doctoral program in comparative sociology designed both for research preparation and foreign service occupations has been announced by Charles Warriner, chairman of the Sociology Department.
Students in the program will take minor programs in one foreign area, with courses selected from any of the disciplines offering work in that area; will take a specialization in one area of sociology, and will study in a third area either a second sociological focus, a second foreign area, or a program in contemporary U.S. society.
AS IN THE regular doctoral program, a student will also assume a program of study in the history of social thought, research methods and general theory.
Language competence in one of the languages of the foreign area is also required, as is a three-month period of supervised field study in a non-western society.
The doctoral research problem must be comparative in design, and must utilize data from at least two societies or areas.
The program was made possible by the faculty additions, this fall, of Murray Wax, associate professor of sociology, who, with his wife, Prof. Rosalie Wax, has specialized in studies of American Indian Education, and the addition of Leo Van Hoey, assistant professor of sociology, who has conducted studies of urbanization in Niger, West Africa.
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Most of the men of the district are unskilled laborers and 20 per cent are unemployed.
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