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Explain the view that the nuclear family “fits” the needs of industrial society. Is it that the structure of nuclear family is the same in all industrial societies?

  • UPSC 1994
  • Systems of Kinship

The "fit thesis" is the functionalist claim that family structure and the economy evolve together. Industrialisation dissolves the extended kin group and produces a small, mobile conjugal unit suited to factory and office. Comparative evidence, however, shows many nuclear families, not one.

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  • The fit thesis
  • Is the nuclear family the same everywhere?
  • Evaluating the thesis
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