Abstract

Deformations of Society

This article presents information on several books. "Social Class and Mental Illness," is written by August B. Hollingshead and Frederick C. Redlich and "Industrial Society and Social Welfare," by Harold L. Wilensky and Charles N. Lebeaux. During the last twenty years academic social scientists have become preoccupied with technical virtuosity and abstract theorizing like American foreign policy, and for much the same reasons, the social science of The first book analyses the relations of treated mental illness to social class from! metropolitan New Haven. Second book first describes the social evolution of urban-industrial society, American variety, and the consequent emergence of such social problems, class conflict, broken families and juvenile delinquency.