Date of Award:

5-1948

Document Type:

Thesis

Degree Name:

Master of Science (MS)

Department:

Sociology and Anthropology

Department name when degree awarded

Sociology

Committee Chair(s)

Joseph A. Geddes

Committee

Joseph A. Geddes

Abstract

Less than a century ago most primary functions of life centered in the family. One by one many of these functions have moved out of the home into the factory, the school, the church and the community. In the loss of functions which held the family together as a unit, disintegration set in and numerous evidences of family disorganization began to appear. Many people today, cognizant of the role which the family still plays in implementing personalities and in sustaining social stability, are nevertheless deeply concerned with increasing evidences of family disorganization.

Eight years ago the United States Office of Education initiated an experimental program which they called a "Community Program of Education for Home and Family Living." The primary purpose of the program was to find effective means of building and strengthening family life. Box Elder County was one of the four representative centers selected as experimental and demonstration centers. The direction which the program was to follow was left largely to the local directors to decide.

The Home and Family Life Program in Box Elder, sponsored by the County Board of Education and under the direction of a Central Sponsoring Committee, has operated on the expedient philosophy of taking care of whatever needs became apparent. The Committee feels that the time has come when they should take a fresh look at the program and decide what should be the next steps. This study is organized with the expressed purpose of aiding them in doing so.

It is felt, both by the investigator and the sponsoring committee, that to achieve its purpose, the program must be based on the real needs of the people. These needs may be divided into two categories: those which the people recognize themselves and those of which they are not aware. This study aims to furnish information regarding the first type, the self-recognized needs.

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