looked at social change over the past 40 years, looking at family life in Swansea, 1000 household surgery. considered social and economical changes that have occurred
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What do Harris, Charles and Davis say about contemporary society?
people are more individualistic now so a decline in family and community obligations. people talk to family if they need something, decline in community spirit means society is become de-institutionalised(traditional ways being abandoned)
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Impact of individualism and de-instituionalism on the nuclear family
led to nuclear family being less dominant eg people no longer feel the need to get married as they have other options such as cohabitation, less people having kids, decline in sibling contact
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What did Harris, Charles and Davis find when people grow up?
once children grow up and have kids they get the relationship back with their parents who are now grandparents, creates extended families in a very modern form.
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What does Harris say about the family?
that sociologists need to see the family as part of a collection of households and nuclear family groups that have the potential to become extended families, rather than as an isolated group.
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What do Harris, Charles and Davis say about contemporary society?
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people are more individualistic now so a decline in family and community obligations. people talk to family if they need something, decline in community spirit means society is become de-institutionalised(traditional ways being abandoned)
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Impact of individualism and de-instituionalism on the nuclear family
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What did Harris, Charles and Davis find when people grow up?
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