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Assess the view that, despite recent changes in Family life, “the conventional nuclear family remains the norm”
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Assess the view that, despite recent changes in Family life, "the conventional nuclear family remains the norm" for families and households in Britain today. The Nuclear family would be defined as a family unit consisting of 2 parents, one male and one female and their dependant children. There are many different types of people, which would all agree that the Nuclear family is the norm, such as, Functionalists and New Right thinkers. The Nuclear family is thought of like the cereal packet family, because its small, socially moveable, individual and private, meaning that society and its laws, allows its individuals to act independently. The Cereal packet theory was described by Leach, who thought that this was the Conventional family. This is the American style vision of a family. G.P Murdock compared 250 different societies and still defined the nuclear family as the unit in which all family systems are organised. Murdock...
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