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As society has become more industrial, the family has changed structurally along withit and due to it.
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As society has become more industrial, the family has changed structurally along with it and due to it. In pre-industrial times the family generally contained members of kin, in what has been described as the 'extended' family. This group worked together, mainly in agriculture or textiles in rural areas. With the introduction of mechanical means of production and factories, the population migrated into towns and cities. It was here that the family became more streamlined with individual members earning wages independently rather than as a collective unit. Also, with the modernisation of society, came institutions such as hospitals and schools. This paper will consider what emerged as the modern nuclear family and how its role and structure has changed along with the society we live in. It looks at two variations of family structure and how they may have come about. Firstly though we shall look at some sociological theories of what the family is...
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