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Evaluate some of the ways in which the movement from pre-industrial to industrial society has been used by sociologists to explain changes in the family.
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Evaluate some of the ways in which the movement from pre-industrial to industrial society has been used by sociologists to explain changes in the family. Around 1800, a period of change began to occur. Before this period, people often lived in extended families, i.e. land and other resources would be split between numerous kin besides the conventional nuclear family unit (mother, father, children), e.g. cousins. Home and workplace were basically one and the same, with very few people going out to find work and neighbouring families trading goods with one another. Family roles in work were simply ascribed rather achieved, passed down generation to generation - with no other chance of mobility unless a family member died or moved away for some reason - and each family seemed to have a particular speciality, e.g. pig farming. These extended families all worked together for each other and cared for one another from...
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