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- ↑ WorldCat item record "Marriage and the Family"
- ↑ WorldCat item record "The Changing Community"
- ↑ WorldCat item record "Family and Society"
- ↑ WorldCat item record "Consumption and Standards of Living"
- ↑ WorldCat item record "Principles of Rural-Urban Sociology"
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