POPULATION № 1, 1968

CONTENTS

Yves TUGAULT. — Two Sociological Surveys about Private Home.

In one of the first issues of Population, Le Corbusier compared on various points of view the two modes of dwellings, the private house and the tenement house. Since that date, and particularly since the resuming in France of building dwellings which had been stopped for a long time, discussions have been numerous. As in many classical and persistent conflicts, this one is darkened by misunderstandings in the very way of the choice definition.

Two publications of the Urban Sociology Institute issued by the Town-Planning Research Center have recently dealt with two different aspects of private dwelling. In the first study, N. Haumont presents the results of an inquiry by non-directive interviews, the aim of which was to set forth the motivations which settle the attitudes towards the two great types of inhabitation.

In the second survey, G. Raymond recalls the historical evolution of the social policy of individual housing. Trying to find its causes, he makes use of a rich documentation : attitudes of the different groups, legislative texts, articles, etc.

Yves Tugault, a research assistant in the I.N.E.D., is presenting and analysing the results of these two surveys.

Nathan KEYFITZ. — An European Survivorship Function and its Stochastic Version.

Charlotte BUSCH. — The Method of Time-Budgets. Analysis of a Soviet Research.

The surveys about people time-table have grown more important since the war. Numerous inquiries have taken place in many countries, particularly in France. In 1965, an international inquiry, on relatively comparable basis, was undertaken under the U.N.E.S.C.O.'s aegis.

In the U.S.S.R., the studies were started, some time about 1920, by Stroumiline and P. Sorokine who propagated them in the United States. Industrialization permitting an increasing reduction of working time and a correlative augmentation of free time, the U.S.S.R. was put before the same problems as elsewhere and has recently to resume this tradition after a long interruption and study this new phenomenon called free time. Now, Soviet research workers have centred their efforts in this way, although they are aware of the need to complete it, particularly by more qualitative analysis. Mrs. Charlotte Busch, who has an economic background and has been specialized since several years in social researchs, is presenting here the results of an inquiry conducted among the personel of Kirov factory in Leningrad, before the international inquiry assumed under the U.N.E.S.C.O.'s aegis, but significant by the interpretation method.