Bio: (1923-2000) British sociologist. Willmott Peter studied at Ruskin College, Oxford, and lectured at the University of Paris, the University of London, and the University of California. In 1953, he cofounded, with Michael Young, the Institute of Community Studies, a non-profit research institute, and used this institute to conduct his ethnographic and policy research.

Young and Willmott published a book, Family and Kinship in East London (1957), based on an ethnographic study of the members of one working-class community. Family and Class in a London Suburb (1960) was the sequel to the previous study, and it dealt with the lives of individuals and families who moved to the suburbs. Willmott studied teenagers in his Adolescent Boys of East London (1966).

Main works

Family and Kinship in East London (1957);

Family and Class in a London Suburb (1960);

The Evolution of a Community (1963);

Adolescent Boys of East London (1966);

The Symmetrical Family (1973).