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Family Ideology Types of Family Source: The Place of Men in changing family cultures. Geoff Dench (1996). An example of how differing ideologies support different family arrangements. The study was an exploration of contemporary cultural variations in family roles allocated to men. It can only be considered a pilot study because only small numbers were involved. The importance of the study is the light it sheds on the impact that ideology can have on how family life is lived and experienced. The fundamental ideological division was between: conventional regulation (marriage) and individual choice. Two main family types identified Conventional families Family is understood as a network of interpersonal rights and obligations arising out of birth and marriage and extending across household boundaries. Personal choice is allowed for to some extent, as in marriage, but once exercised it should foreclose further choices. Family ties are seen as binding together people of all ages and sex categories into groupings whose members...

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