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Assess the claim that the nuclear family had the best fit for industrial and modern society
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Assess the claim that the nuclear family had the best fit for industrial and modern society The relationship between the structure of the family and the related processes of industrialization and modernization is a major theme in sociological study of the family. Industrialization refers to the growth in the mass production of goods in a factory system which involves mechanical production which started in the late 19th century and continues still today and modernization is the development of social, cultural, economic and political institutions which are thought of as typical in a modern society. These developments include the replacement of religious belief systems with scientific ones, the growth of bureaucracy and the replacement of Monarchies with representative democracies. The claim that the nuclear family was the best fit for industrialization and modernization has weighted arguments for and against. Where some sociologists regard industrialization as the central process involved...
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