Further, they did not understand that many nonliterate societies deemphasize changes in the past to stress their continuity with it. For example, most sociology and marriage-and-family textbooks during the 1950s maintained that the male breadwinnerfemale homemaker nuclear family was the best arrangement for children, as it provided for a familys economic and child-rearing needs. Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries they voiced concern about the excesses of industrial urban society and the calamitous changes in the family system. This in turn caused a surge in the divorce rate, which tripled between 1860 and 1910. It is the study of how human beings relate with each other, how each individual relationship has been influenced by other people and patterns which are formed out of their interactive relationships. By the end of the 1980s, 90 percent of Journal of Marriage and the Family articles were empirical (Adams 1988). Another important development in early family sociology resulted from the growing distinction of sociology from religion, charity, and activism. Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA. Their research and theories focused on the causal connections relating family change to the larger industrial and urban developments occurring in the last two centuries. (Eds. Within 16 years, every other state had followed suit. It approaches human families in comparison to other species and the history, study of intergenerational relations, using biological, psychological and sociological factors to develop a single framework for understanding why kin help one another across generations. One reason for these developments is that marriage has been repositioned as a cornerstone to capstone, from a foundational act of early adulthood to a crowning event of later adulthood. It is viewed as an event that should happen after finishing college and establishing a career. Early anthropologists speculated that family was a necessary step from savagery to civilization in human evolution. The family as a topic in its own right was still most often the province of social workers concerned with social problems and therapeutic issues. In essence, the wifes separate legal existence disappeared as far as property rights and certain other rights were concerned. Husbands, in contrast, were managers and providers in the family. Family sociology was comparative within and between cultures. Lystra, K. (1989). The Evolution of. Women were increasingly going out to work and men were doing more of the housework. But the policy and issue discussions of the 1980s reflected deeper cultural and political divides that did become important to public presentations of contemporary family sociology. This belief was replaced by multi linear evolutionary theory that recognizes that there are many evolutionary tracks that societies can follow. In: Parsons, T. & Bales, R. F. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. A number of historical factors contributed to shifts in how Americans perceive and participate in family structure. Some may never choose to wed (Jayson 2008). The controversy surrounding evolutionary theory was sweeping Western Europe and America. The domestic economy had enabled the family to combine economic activities with the super vision and training of its children; the development of the factory system led to a major change in the division of labor in family roles. During the institution building phase (Maines 2001) of sociology up to World War II, sociology was empirical, quantitative, and theoretical. Evolutionary Theory The American sociologist Morgan has put forward the evolutionary theory of family origin. Although the popularity of family sociology was represented in a large body of empirical research, the theoretical contributions of family sociologists were relatively narrow. The sweeping changes had particular effect on the family. Further, the isolated nuclear family, which is not handicapped by conflicting obligations to extended relatives, can best take advantage of occupational opportunities and is best able to cope with the demands of modern industrial urban life. As early as 1960, around a third of middle class women were working either part-time or full-time jobs. Scientific work on family issues specifically had already been completed. Concordia University, St. Paul offers online family science degree programs at both theundergraduate andgraduate level. The commitment to an explanatory and predictive family sociology first expressed by Burgess came to be represented by a sociology of straightforward, testable propositions and quantitative descriptions of phenomena. Becker, H. S. (1973) Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance, 2nd edn. 22.2 Public Sociology and Improving Society. The rise of the post-industrial economy, based in information and services, led to more married women entering the workplace. Much of this work presented families in structure and process (as in the roles of grandparents and the process of grand parenting), types of families (like military families), internal dynamics such as decision making or emotional conflict, or basic life processes such as housing and employment. The belief that womens status improves with economic development does not fully realize that widespread structures of patriarchy often keep women in subordinate positions. While sociologists of the day were concerned with social pathologies, they were also working to establish sociology as an objective, scientific discipline. Greenwood Press, Westport, CT. Maines, D. R. (2001) The Faultline of Consciousness: A View of Interactionism in Sociology. The known and understood areas of family such as marriage, fertility, and divorce were particularly amenable to statistical analysis. Stacey, J. Family is one example of such an institution. The large balance of sociological research on family is still as insulated as most professional intellectual activity, and concentrates on issues primarily of interest to scholars. Many who are interested in family development and culture choose to pursue a career in family science. This was shown in the breadth and scope of Thomas and Znaniekis The Polish Peasant in Europe and America (1929). (1963) World Revolution and Family Patterns. Though the families of today have little in common with those in previous decades and centuries, family science professionals have a clear perspective on how to approach the complexities of a constantly evolving institution. Rather than viewing industrialization and urbanization negatively, Parsons saw the family as becoming a more specialized group. However, young girls were supposed to be housewives instead of educated professionals. You just dont understand: Women and men in conversation. 3 33. Another factor in the decline of evolutionary theory was that it was involved with an irrelevant set of questions. More often family sociologists address diffuse, popular anxiety about the family in decline, in crisis, or the breakdown of the family. It was a robust and diverse area. & Adams, B. Many children took part-time jobs and many wives supplemented the family income., When the Depression ended and World War II began, families coped with new issues: a shortage of housing, lack of schools and prolonged separation. Basic Books, New York. Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behavior. Columbia University Press, New York. Today, the male-breadwinner, female-housewife family represents only a small percentage of American households. (2005) Public and Private Families, 4th edn. The rural and village based family system no longer served as a productive unit. Comparative history: the historical analysis of the family not confined to national boundaries. Toward the end of the nineteenth century and through the early twentieth century social scientists concerned about the abuses arising from rapid urbanization and industrialization began to see the decline in the importance of kinship and community participation and the changes in the makeup of the nuclear family as more important areas of investigation than the study of the evolutionary transformations of the family. In fact, this is where the concept of close-knit families as we know it originates. All societies have norms governing with whom and how often a person should have sex. Recall that the functional perspective emphasizes that social institutions perform several important functions to help preserve social stability and otherwise keep a society working. The concept of modernization, derived from structural functionalism, and the theories stemming from it have been the dominating perspective in the analysis of global social change and the family since the last quarter of the twentieth century. Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie all get episodes with their perspectives being the premise of the episode. Pathfinder Press, New York. Parents, siblings, and, if the family is extended rather than nuclear, other relatives all help socialize children from the time they are born. Sociology emphasizes group relationships and total social environment. In these and other areas, family sociologists have explored reciprocal effects of family and family policy, considering how changes in family behavior have influenced policies, and how policy changes have affected different types of families. The nuclear family of the 50s epitomized the economically stable family unit. Functionalists perspectives on the family hold that families perform functions such as socializing children, providing emotional and practical support, regulating sexual activity and reproduction, and providing social identity. Approved by th National Council on Family Relations (NCFR). The article's aim is to evaluate the application of the evolutionary principles of kin selection, reproductive value, and resource holding power to the understanding of family violence and concludes that most of the evidence is consistent with evolutionary predictions derived from kin selection and reproductive value. Not only do they maintain their contacts with their families in their home countries through financial support, but they develop trader communities that are transnational and which link them to their families and to economic networks (Stoller 2001). Cheal, D. (1991) Family and the State of Theory. And these skills will only become more valuable as families continue to evolve. When people talk about the family, undoubtedly many think of the "conventional" nuclear family. It compared families by race, geography, income, and occupation in the United States, and as the sociological community became more global, American sociologists conducted more international family comparisons and American journals published significant international work. Concern for gender role egalitarianism, as opposed to patriarchy and male sexual dominance, achieved their fullest evolutionary theory expression in this work. (1976). Evolutionary biologists seek to understand human behavior by postulating that many of our current social behaviors and emotions represent heritable adaptations that were selectively advantageous. As we have seen in earlier chapters, social identity is important for our life chances. Evolution of the Western Family The patriarchal family, which prevailed among the ancient Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans, is often associated with polygamy (see marriage ). At the University of Chicago, Ernest Burgess elaborated the properties of family as a collection of interacting individuals, and encouraged a commitment to prediction and explanation in all of sociology including the area of family. Romantic love is the common basis for American marriages and dating relationships, but it is much less common in several other contemporary nations. Many more topics were developing, of course, and research continued on the topics that had come to represent family sociology courtship, marriage, socialization, and divorce. Although the functional perspective assumes the family provides its members emotional comfort and support, many families do just the opposite and are far from the harmonious, happy groups depicted in the 1950s television shows. Family sociology was comparative within and between cultures. In this essay I aim to raise, evaluate and analyse the arguments raised by Functionalist, Marxist and Feminist theories with regards to why and when these changes occurred and their impact on the family and society in general. (Eds.) In the 1980s this was already apparent in the frequency of research enterprises related to policy. Parsons viewed American society as having been greatly changed by industrialization and urbanization. Parsons, T. (1955) The American Family: Its Relation to Personality and to the Social Structure. As you think how best to understand the family, do you favor the views and assumptions of functional theory, conflict theory, or social interactionist theory? (Eds.) Why or why not. During the first two decades of the twentieth century, sociological study was seldom devoted exclusively to family. One final factor in the decline of evolutionary theory was the shift in focus of the sociology of the family. What is brought to the public from family sociology is the established and unified view that the family is a tough, flexible institution that is constantly in transition, and that decline and crisis are critical evaluations rather than scientific conclusions. Today, there really is no consistent definition of the American family. change over time. Westview Press, Boulder. Burgess, E. W. (1926) The Family as a Unity of Interacting Personalities. It approaches human families in comparison to other species and the history of hominid evolution. Engless evolutionary theory saw economic factors as the primary determinants of social change and linked particular technological forms with particular family forms. The emphasis switched from the development of theories of family systems to the more urgent concerns of individual families and their members. Parsons further suggested that the isolated nuclear family may be ideally suited to meet the demands of occupational and geographical mobility inherent in industrial urban society. This review demonstrates the utility of POCT, not only for explaining what is known about conflict within families but also for generating novel hypotheses, suggesting new lines of research, and moving us toward the "big picture" by integrating across biological and psychological domains of knowledge. Social Darwinists made ethnocentric and subjective pronouncements. As it developed through the centuries, and especially during industrialization, the family also became more and more of a patriarchal unit (see earlier discussion), helping to ensure mens status at the top of the social hierarchy. Explain your answer. According to him this theory of evolution has passed from the following stages. Contributing to this decline were the methodological weaknesses of the approach (data obtained by untrained, impressionistic, and biased travelers and missionaries) and a growing rejection of both its explicit value assumptions on the superiority of western family forms and its belief in unilinear evolutionary development of the family. This underlying assumption about the causes of social problems was held by the social reform movements major advocate, the Chicago School of Sociology, which was composed of such important sociologists as Robert E. Park, Ernest W. Burgess, Louis Wirth, E. Franklin Frazier, W. I. Thomas, and Florian Znaniecki. The common view of divorce rates as an indicator of family decline can be addressed by historical analysis of changing divorce laws, the relative marital satisfaction of modern couples, the desire for marriage expressed by the overwhelming majority of young people, the blending of families after divorce, or the abiding interest in their children shared by divorced parents. The basic argument was that since biological evolution proceeded by a series of stages (from the simple to the complex), the same process would hold for cultures. Worlds of pain: Life in the working-class family. This shift was in part precipitated by the sweeping changes in American and European societies during the nineteenth century. Nineteenth century sociologists such as Herbert Spencer and William Sumner adopted evolutionary views of family and made use of anthropological terms, but discussions of best family types gave way to considering the customs, conventions, and traditions of family life. Cultural history: the study of the family in the cultural context. 1. However, by the mid twentieth century, the dominant perspective in sociology, structural functionalism, pro claimed that the family was alive, well, and functioning in modern industrial society. Their contacts with the outside world diminished and they were removed from community involvements. Other studies explore the role played by romantic love in courtship and marriage. They viewed their own societys art, religion, morals, and values according to their notions of what was good and correct, explaining such barbaric practices as polygamy and sexual promiscuity based on their own national and individual norms. University of Toronto Press, Toronto. Because of this, parents studied child development and worked to socialize their children so that they would become successful adults. The family is responsible for shaping a child's personality, emerging identity, and self-esteem. For example, one concern is the impact of globalization on generational relationships among family members, particularly as a consequence of differential socialization experiences in different cultural settings. In Rome, the paterfamilias was the only person recognized as an independent individual under the law. In modern society most of these functions have been taken over as a consequence of the increased participation of government, economic enterprises, and education. As the theory of evolution became the dominant form in explaining biological principles, social scientists of the nineteenth century developed the belief that there was a link between biological and cultural evolution. OKelly, C. & Carney, L. (1986) Women and Men in Society: Cross Cultural Perspectives on Gender Stratification. In this regard, several studies find that husbands and wives communicate differently in certain ways that sometimes impede effective communication. (200) Runaway World: How Globalization is Reshaping Our Lives. The family as a socializing agency, the pressures of urbanization and industrialization on family, the effects of immigration, and the problems of migration from rural to urban life were all addressed in The Polish Peasant. Furthermore, I have developed interpersonal . Coleman, M. & Ganong, L. H. (2004) Handbook of Contemporary Families. Goode concluded that changes in industrialization and the family are parallel processes, both being influenced by changing social and personal ideologies the ideologies of economic progress, the conjugal family, and egalitarianism. The foundational assumption of the Council is that shifts in family life are best met with investigations of underlying causes rather than moralizing discourse. The Evolutionary. Busch, R. C. (1990) Family Systems: Comparative Study of the Family. Free Press, New York. For example, family sociologists might be interested in measuring the effects of divorce on the school performance of children, determining the influence of birth order on personality, or collecting the personal traits of the ideal mate. ), Family, Socialization and Interaction Process. With single-parent households, varying family structures, and fewer children, the modern family defies categorization. Unencumbered by obligatory extended kinship bonds, the nuclear family is best able to move where the jobs are and better able to take advantage of occupational opportunities. Half of all articles in the Journal of Marriage and Family were empirical by the end of the 1970s. Another important development was government regulation of some aspects of childhood, such as child labor and schooling. The open quality of family sociology has widened the array of staple topics to include cohabitation, childlessness, and extra marital sex, to name only a few, and family is clearly among the most responsive specialties to popular and political issues. Such gender differences seem less common in middle-class families, where men are better educated and more emotionally expressive than their working-class counterparts. Modernization is often linked with a wide range of changes in the political, economic, social, and individual spheres. The great diversity of city life rendered this socialization function relatively useless. This is nowhere more apparent than in the passionate inclusiveness of socio logical definitions of family. Modernization theory combines conceptual orientations from both Social Darwinism and structural functionalism to elaborate the theoretical relationship between societal development and family change. They controlled finances and had ultimate authority in the eyes of both society and the law. By the 1950s the dominant school was structural functionalism, under the intellectual leadership of Talcott Parsons, who was one of the most predominant and influential sociologists of the twentieth century. This has become a major focus in much of the subsequent historical research on the family and is of great theoretical importance in the sociology of the family. Where we are born, we are a member. Womens role in religion often is of secondary or of little religious importance. Likewise, developmental theory can be seen as a twentieth century counterpart that shares many of the assumptions put forth by nineteenth century radicals such as Marx and Engels. Some of the most common family forms in the UK are: Nuclear families Same-sex families Dual-worker families Extended families Beanpole families Lone-parent families Reconstituted families Women are particularly impacted by global poverty. Rather than focus on whether or not there is a convergence to western models of modernity and family structure, they have focused on the impact of the globalization of the economy on the poor, not only in third world societies but in industrial ones as well. Hareven, T. (2000) Families, History and Social Change. Nuclear family with house husband or "new man" Childhood became a distinct period of life. The divorce rate fell during this time because it was expensive and few could afford it. Instead, the family viewed neighbors with suspicion and weariness. And sociologys emphases on populations, societies, and the institutions embedded within them allowed the observation that American and European families were rapidly changing in response to the challenges of modern society. (1994) Mothering: Ideology, Experience and Agency. The family performs several essential functions for society. Here the emphasis is on an examination of the transnational processes that have an impact on families. According to the 2005 American Community Survey,more than 50 percentof households in America were headed by an unmarried person during that year. Echoing Lewis Henry Morgan, Engels depicted a stage of savagery as one with no economic inequalities and no private ownership of property. In addition, single-parent families headed by mothers, families formed through remarriage, and empty-nest families have all become part of the norm. This entry deals with the different approaches taken by social scientists in their analysis of the family in the wake of the industrial revolution. Peter Lang, New York. Attempts to show how family sociology should be framed by theory were rare; so much so that a 1979 collection by Burr and his associates is still considered particularly noteworthy. Such massive social change inevitably impacts on the family, but Parsons argues that it was transformative: it created the nuclear family. Macro sociology looks at economies of scale, law, medicine, and systems of education to show how society works. Since the 60s, families have also become smaller, less stable, and more diverse. Why are. Beyond discussing the familys functions, the functional perspective on the family maintains that sudden or far-reaching changes in conventional family structure and processes threaten the familys stability and thus that of society. There was a dramatic increase in such conditions as poverty, child labor, desertions, prostitution, illegitimacy, and the abuse of women and children. The Evolution of SOCIOLOGY OF THE FAMILY: 1921: The Problem of the Family. Invocations of family in political debate reveal the deep understanding that most people belong to families and hold cherished values associated with family life. Americas mainstream culture evolves to reflect the predominant values of the day, including social systems such as the family. It rejects the unilinear evolutionary view that all cultures advance toward a model represented by western culture as ultimately ethnocentric and often racist. For example, researchers noted a constant increase in the percentage of marriages ending in divorce and linked the increases to changes in economy, law, and the changing roles of women who were entering the workforce in increasing numbers. It has been expressed through expanding research, teaching, and counseling on such social phenomena as dating, mate selection, marriage adjustment, parent-child relationships, and personality formation within the family context. This chapter outlines the main assumptions and recent advances in evolutionary family sociology. 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