extended family decline
- Created by: Jipperer
- Created on: 30-09-17 19:34
View mindmap
- Why has there been a decline in the extended family?
- The need for small family unit for geographical mobility
- Contemporary society = division of labour
- Wide range of different occupations with different incomes and lifestyles
- labour force needs to be geographicaly mobile
- improve education, promotions
- Means leaving relatives behind, breaking up extended family life
- Nuclear family ideally suited as smaller in size, not tied down by responsibilities for extended kin.
- Contemporary society = division of labour
- Higher rates of social mobility weaken kin links
- Different members of extended family having different jobs
- Education
- Income
- Lifestyle
- Opportunities
- Attitudes
- Values
- Differences weaken relations between kin
- Different members of extended family having different jobs
- Strengthened bonds between partners to protect family stability
- Helps cement family relationships
- increases mutual dependency of partners
- Family life has become more home centered
- becomes a more self contained and intimate environment for family
- Helps cement family relationships
- Need to avoid economic and status differences between extended kin
- The differences can cause conflict and instability
- Can cause instability with all the family members
- Statuses and economic situations causing problems
- More meritocratic society-kin support is less useful/ necessary
- Contemporary societies require more skills and education for jobs
- Meritocratic-'what you know'
- Extended kin have less to offer family members
- such as job opportunities, reducing reliance on kin
- kin links are important for upper class
- inheritance of wealth and access to elite jobs.
- Less reliance on kin
- people are better off, welfare state has taken over functions previously performed by family
- education, healthcare, welfare
- reduced reliance on kin for support in times off distress
- people are better off, welfare state has taken over functions previously performed by family
- The need for small family unit for geographical mobility
Comments
No comments have yet been made