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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter I. The Estate and its Beginning -- Chapter II. People and their Jobs -- Chapter III. Stability and the Place of Relatives -- Chapter IV. Pressures on the Second Generation -- Chapter V. The Voluntary Emigrants -- Chapter VI. Friends and Neighbours -- Chapter VII. Variations in Sociability -- Chapter VIII. Public and Private Living -- Chapter IX. Affluence, Status and Class -- Chapter X. In Conclusion-the Working-Class Community -- Appendices -- 1. Methods of Research -- 2. Additional Tables -- 3. London County Council's House-Room Standards -- 4. List of References -- Index.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- I: The District and the Boys -- II: The Fraternities of the Street -- III: Girls, Sex and Marriage -- IV: Family and Kinship -- V: School -- VI: Work -- VII: Youth Clubs -- VIII: Delinquency -- IX: In Conclusion - Growing Up in a Working-Class Community -- Appendices -- 1 Methods of Research -- 2 Interview Schedule and Interviewers' Instructions -- 3 Diary Instructions and Sample Diary -- 4 Classifying Boys into 'Types' -- 5 List of References -- Index.

Originally published in the International Social Science Journal, 1977, 29, 2.

A controversy in Britain in 1976 about the work of the late Sir Cyril Burt is the point of departure. Burt's work had been attacked as careless even, in places, dishonest. Willmott, as London correspondent of the International Social Science Journal, has summarized the debate & attempted to set it in the context of a wider discussion of integrity in social science. From a brief review of Burt's work & the debate concerning it, the evidence strongly suggests that Burt not only made substantial errors, but actually distorted or invented data to fit his preconceptions. In doing so, Burt had influenced scientific opinion--& ultimately PO--about the relative weight of heredity vs environmental factors. Such scientific malpractice, must be exposed whenever it is discovered. The integrity of social science is paramount, not least because of the possible influence of research findings on social behavior & upon policy. AA.