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How does Parsons defend the nuclear family in promoting industrialisation? Is his thesis universally valid?

  • UPSC 1991
  • Sociological Thinkers

Talcott Parsons (Family, Socialization and Interaction Process, with Robert F. Bales, 1955) argued that the isolated nuclear family is the family form best fitted to industrial society. His argument is a "fit thesis": economy and family evolve together through structural differentiation.

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