The Trend of Family Structures

The trend of family structures In regards to time, there has historically been considerable debate regarding the emergence of the nuclear family. For example, one of the founders of sociology, Max Weber attributed all family structural changes to the social changes spawn by the industrial revolution. The impact of technological change and the increase of material wealth that occurred during the industrial revolution seriously affect family and social relationships and structures. The new principles of …

…nuclear family. There are many factors that have altered the family’s need for support and the capacity in which it is given. These include a shift in the role of the family from agrarian domestic production to factory production and increasingly becoming a unit of consumption, demographic changes and changes in social policy. As a result, the nuclear family is not a single type of family pattern, but contains different divisions in the society.