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The International Library of Sociology

THE SOCIOLOGY
OF HOUSING

Founded by KARL MANNHEIM

The International Library of Sociology

PUBLIC POLICY, WELFARE
AND SOCIAL WORK
In 18 Volumes

I	The Church in Social Work	Hall et al
II	Creative Demobilisation Part One	Gutkind
III	Creative Demobilisation Part Two	Gutkind
IV	Higher Civil Servants in Britain	Kelsall
V	Housing Needs and Planning Policy	Cullingworth
VI	Penelope Hall's Social Services
of England and Wales	Forder
VII	The Price of Social Security	Williams
VIII	The Professional Task in Welfare Practice	Nokes
IX	Social Casework	Timms
X	Social Policies for Old Age	Shenfield
XI	Social Security: Beveridge and After	George
XII	Social Services in British Industry	Young
XIII	Social Services of Modern Britain	Hall
XIV	The Sociology of Housing	Morris et al
XV	Voluntary Social Services since 1918	Mess
XVI	Voluntary Societies and Social Policy	Rooff
XVII	Voluntary Work and the Welfare State	Morris
XVIII	Working with Community Groups	Goetschius

THE SOCIOLOGY
OF HOUSING

Studies at Berinsfield

by

R. N. MORRIS and JOHN MOGEY

First published in 1965 by

Routledge

Reprinted 1998, 2001 by

Routledge

2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN

Transferred to Digital Printing 2007

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group

1965 R. N. Morris and John Mogey

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

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The Sociology of Housing

ISBN 0-415-17726-X

Public Policy, Welfare and Social Work: 18 Volumes

ISBN 0-415-17831-2

The International Library of Sociology: 274 Volumes

ISBN 0-415-17838-X

Publisher's Note

The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of this reprint but points out that some imperfections in the original may be apparent

To Albert and Sylvia Morris

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

All photographs reproduced by courtesy of the Oxford Mail & Times, Ltd.

IN 1958, the Oxfordshire rural slum known as Field Farm began to be torn down and replaced by the model village of Berinsfield. This transformation was the result of some ten years of preparation and planning by Bullingdon Rural District Council. Several schemes had been drafted, to the accompaniment of agitation on the part of the inhabitants of Field Farm, opposition from local interests who wished to retain the land for farming and the settlements of rural workers, and hesitation on the part of Ministries in Whitehall. Field Farm lay about eight miles south-east of Oxford, where its people mostly found employment in factories and service industries. Our preliminary discussions with representatives of the Bullingdon R.D.C. pointed to the complete rehousing of the Field Farm families in the new village which was to rise on the same site.

From our standpoint as social scientists, this was a natural experiment by which we could measure the social consequences of rehousing a community without the usual marked changes in geographical location and in the composition of the settlement. Some of these aims were nullified by events: these dynamic changes, in both the experimental population and our control group, forced several modifications in the wording of questions from one series of interviews to the next. We attempted in this way to reap the benefits both of the panel research design and of the independent survey.

The data and the analysis on which this book rests document, as no other investigation has been able to do, the social stresses and strains that accompany the rehousing of families. The reconstruction of the physical environment, as a newly designed and well-planned village, rising from the ruins of wartime huts originally built for the unmarried personnel of an aerodrome, constituted our experimental situation. The plan for Berinsfield was drawn up by Sir William Holford, for a mixed village of tenants and owners, with a suitable complement of shops, a church, school and public house. We wish to emphasise, however, that our research is concerned only with the rehousing of the original inhabitants, not with the emergence of the new village as a whole.

Physical conditions at Berinsfield have changed beyond recognition since our research was completed. Our adverse comments are therefore directed against conditions at Berinsfield in 1959, and not in 1964. A revisit is being provisionally planned for 1967, in order to assess how far the drastic physical changes have been followed by lasting social changes.

Field surveys occupied much of 1958 and 1959. Three series of interviews were conducted; many long talks with local informants, observations and recordings of local social events added to the quantitative data of the interviews. To guard against the influence of factors outside the village, a control group was selected from other hut dwellers on the eastern outskirts of Oxford. We tried to choose, from the huts at Slade Park, a sample of families who matched those on Field Farm and who were unlikely to be rehoused within twelve months.

An extensive preliminary report was written jointly by the three members of the survey team, John Mogey, Raymond Morris and Doreen Mogey, and presented to the Nuffield Foundation and the Bullingdon Rural District Council. A further personal analysis of the data was presented as a D.Phil. thesis at Oxford by Dr. Morris. The present volume combines some aspects of each of these documents: the major share in its preparation rests with Dr. Morris, so he appears as principal author.

Our academic debts are innumerable: we have tried to add to the ongoing discussions in social science about the complex relations between the physical environment and the structure and processes of a society. We should, however, wish to single out Professor R. K. Merton of Columbia University, for the loan of unpublished materials in the sociology of housing; Dr. Peter Collison, Dr. Norman Bailey and Professor W. M. Gorman of Oxford University, and Mr. John Madge of P.E.P., for critical comments and much personal encouragement.

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