Saurabh SharmaAIR 23 · CSE 2023 · 179 wordsTheir whole copy
Opening
Am Shah in his book "Household dimension of family" has described the developmental cycle of family.
Body · points and prose
Louis Wirth and other modernist argue that with advent of industry a transition between joint to nuclear takes place. As Parsons decribed "nuclear family to be fit for industrial society"
AM Shah, Pauline Kolenda, MS Gore however argue that Indian family has gone for a developmental cycle rather than this unidirectional change.
Patrilocal → Natolocal → Patrilocal marraige birth of of son offspring
O = Δ | ⇒ O = Δ ⇒ ● = Δ Δ = O Δ = O Δ = O joint marginal joint family. family joint family (or nuclear family)
Functional jointness is still present despite the decline of structural jointness. Am shah says that increase in number of household shouldn't be a metrics to describe Indian family moving from joint to nuclear. Rather family relation should be of importance.
Close
With rise of service sector jobs and both parents working, grandparents are acquiring role of care givers thus depicting that family isn't a static institution.