Social systems

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• System theory
• Sociology

• Paternalism
• Social institutions

• The Macroscope: A New World Scientific System (1979), by Joel de Rosnay, trans. by Robert Edwards (illustrated HTML with commentary at Principia Cybernetica Web)

• The Velvet Glove: Paternalism and Conflict in Gender, Class, and Race Relations (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Mary R. Jackman (HTML at UC Press)

• Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, by Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
  • HTML in Japan
  • text at McMaster
  • Gutenberg text

• Courtship and Marriage, and the Gentle Art of Home-Making (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1894), by Annie S. Swan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Critical Theory of the Family, by Mark Poster (frame-dependent HTML at UC Irvine)
• Family Relationships: Ten Topics Toward Happier Homes (study guide; Elizabethtown, PA: Continental Press, c1948), by Elizabeth S. Force and Edgar M. Finck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Family Relationships: Ten Topics Toward Happier Homes: A Handbook for Administrators and Teachers Who Use the Accompanying Study Guide (teacher's guide; Elizabethtown, PA: Continental Press, c1948), by Elizabeth S. Force and Edgar M. Finck (page images at HathiTrust)
• In Laws, Pro and Con: An Original Study of Inter-Personal Relations (New York: Association Press, c1954), by Evelyn Millis Duvall (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Life at Home, by William Aikman (page images at MOA)
• Marriage and the American Ideal (1960), by Floyd Mansfield Martinson (HTML and PDF at ipce.info)
• Our Mother-Tempers (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Marion J. Levy (HTML at UC Press)
• Three Things (New York: Hearst's International Library Co., c1915), by Elinor Glyn (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Who Owns the Family? God or the State?, by Ray R. Sutton (PDF and JavaScript-dependent HTML at entrewave.com)

• Mourning Becomes Electra: A Trilogy (1931), by Eugene O'Neill (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• An American Family: A Novel of To-Day (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1918), by Henry Kitchell Webster (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Author of Beltraffio, by Henry James (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Buddenbrooks: Verfall einer Familie (in German; Berlin: Deutsche Buch-Gemeinschaft, c1909), by Thomas Mann (Gutenberg text)
• Cloudy Jewel (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1920), by Grace Livingston Hill, illust. by Henry Weston Taylor
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Cloudy Jewel (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1920), by Grace Livingston Hill (Gutenberg text)
• Diana Tempest, by Mary Cholmondeley (HTML with commentary in the UK)
• His Family (New York: Macmillan, 1917), by Ernest Poole (Gutenberg text)
• In Macao, by Charles A. Gunnison (Gutenberg text)
• Lizzie Leigh, by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (Gutenberg text)
• Mary Marie, by Eleanor H. Porter, illust. by Helen Mason Grose (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
• Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka, trans. by David Wyllie (Gutenberg text)
• The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary (new edition, with pictures from the play; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1910), by Anne Warner (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Rising Crime and the Dismembered Family: How Conformist Intellectuals Have Campaigned Against Common Sense (c1993), by Norman Dennis (PDF at Civitas)

• The Negro Family in British Guiana (Internet edition), by Raymond Thomas Smith, contrib. by Meyer Fortes (HTML at Chicago)

• The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State, by Friedrich Engels (HTML at marxists.org)

• The Adventures of Herr Baby (London: Macmillan and Co., 1908), by Mrs. Molesworth, illust. by Walter Crane (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Adventures of Joel Pepper, by Margaret Sidney (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Boys and I: A Child's Story for Children (London: George Routledge and Sons, n.d.), by Mrs. Molesworth, illust. by M. E. Edwards (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Confessions of a Daddy (New York: The Century Co., 1907), by Ellis Parker Butler, illust. by Fanny Y. Cory (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Cornelli, by Johanna Spyri (Gutenberg text)
• Divided Skates (New York: T. Y. Crowell and Co., c1900), by Evelyn Raymond (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Eight Cousins, by Louisa May Alcott
  • HTML at Bibliomania
  • Gutenberg text
• Elsie and Her Namesakes (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., c1905), by Martha Finley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Elsie's Girlhood, by Martha Finley (Gutenberg text)
• Elsie's Kith and Kin, by Martha Finley (Gutenberg text)
• Elsie's Womanhood, by Martha Finley (Gutenberg text)
• Ethel Morton at Rose House (Cleveland and New York: World Syndicate Pub. Co., 1915), by Mabell S. C. Smith (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Five Little Peppers and Their Friends, by Margaret Sidney (Gutenberg text)
• Five Little Peppers Grown Up, by Margaret Sidney (Gutenberg text)
• Katy's Christmas (volume 1 of The Doll's Club series; Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen, & Haffelfinger, 1871), by Virginia W. Johnson (illustrated HTML at readseries.com)
• Lassie (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1903), by Evelyn Whitaker (text with commentary at evelynwhitakerlibrary.org)
• Little Miss Peggy: Only a Nursery Story (London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1887), by Mrs. Molesworth, illust. by Walter Crane
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• The Little Red Shop (Boston: D. Lothrop Co., c1889), by Margaret Sidney (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Marjorie's Busy Days (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1908), by Carolyn Wells (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Miss Dee Dunmore Bryant (Boston: D. Lothrop Co., c1891), by Isabella Macdonald Alden (page images at Google; US access only)
• Our Little Ann (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1886), by Evelyn Whitaker (page images at Google; US access only)
• The Peterkin Papers (based on a reprint of the 1886 Houghton Mifflin edition), by Lucretia P. Hale (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Peterkin Papers, by Lucretia P. Hale (Gutenberg text)
• The Randolphs (London et al.: G. Routledge and Sons, 1889), by Isabella Macdonald Alden (page images at Google; US access only)
• The Stokesley Secret, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text)
• The Stories Polly Pepper Told to the Five Little Peppers in the Little Brown House (Boston: Lothrop Publishing Co., c1899), by Margaret Sidney, illust. by Jessie McDermott and Etheldred B. Barry (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Susanna and Sue (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1909), by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, illust. by Alice Barber Stephens and N. C. Wyeth (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Thorogood Family, by R. M. Ballantyne, illust. by Henry Austin (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Two Little Women, by Carolyn Wells, illust. by Edward C. Caswell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Youngest Girl in the Fifth: A School Story (London et al.: Blackie and Son, n.d.), by Angela Brazil, illust. by Stanley Davis (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

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