Communities in Britain brings together the findings of some of the most influential field studies undertaken in Britain in the mid-1960s. The village, the market town, the urban housing estate, and sections of great cities are examined successively, revealing the power structures, the degree of communality or isolation, and the relationship patterns prevailing in different environments. From the results of these detailed studies the author develops in his final chapters a theory of social development in Britain which can hardly fail to intrigue the educated natives of a modern society. This revised edition includes as an appendix Professor Frankenberg's 1976 essay, Sex and Gender in British Community Studies.