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This essay contains of the move from pre-industrial to industrial society and the effect it had on the form, structure and purpose of the family.
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This essay contains of the move from pre-industrial to industrial society and the effect it had on the form, structure and purpose of the family. And also the changes in family form due to industrialisation and urbanisation, and how social identity changed due to historical changes. In pre-industrial society the classic extended family was found in traditional peasant societies. All together they worked producing goods for the family's survival. In industrial society many people went from the rural lands to the town to work in the factories, this caused many extended families to split up, for a time people lived as part of nuclear families isolated from their kin. The effect of industrialisation on the form of the family was that the family decreased in size due to the men of the family going into the town to find work, for example because jobs in agriculture declined and those in factories expanded...
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