INDUSTRIALIZATION AND THE FAMILY TYPE: AN INTEGRATED OVERVIEW

This paper codifies and analyzes the theoretical arguments and the empirical findings concerning the relationships between industrialization and the family type. Both the "orthodox" view, which sees industrialization the cause leading to change of the family type, and the challenges against it are presented. The orthodox view is analyzed in terms of the arguments regarding the "isolated nuclear family" as an ideal type, the dysfunctional relationships between the extended family and industrialization, and the functional ' fitness" between the nuclear family and industrialization. The general assumptions of the orthodox view are also dis cussed.