Impact of Industry on family

2.  We will discuss the relation between industry
and family in our society. The family is
considered the oldest form of human groups.
All institutions today are modified by the
family. Institutions are more complicated
than families. It will be described how family
can cope with situational and environmental
changes.

3. Industrialism was firstly knocked on the door of
western civilization which was found a tightly knit
feudal society. In feudal family, father ruled his
family in a feudal manner. The wife was sub
ordinate to her husband and children was a minor
part of the family. The family was extended by
marriage or by a large number of kinship ties. The
relationship was maintained for socio-economic
realities. But it was not maintained for long time
and shattered . Activities were extended and family
kinships were shattered and it paved the way of
industrialization.

4. Effects of industrialism on traditional family:
1)Industrialism quickly and permanently
shattered the family form.
2) It is incompatible with traditional family
relationships.
3) It has shattering effects on the extended
family.
4)It radically changes the physical environment
of the family.
So we can say that industrialism has chnged the
form,structure and inner relationship of
traditional family.

5. 1)The industrial-urban family is not embedded in a
matrix of extended kin relationships.
2)The family is based on the conjugal relationship since
the family does not rest on ties to property, to
location,to land rather its success and failure
depends on the capacity of husband and wife.
3)It is marked by a relatively great degree of equality in
its roles.
4) The father of this family must adjust his personality
to the emotions need of his wife and the wife enjoys
a high status in such a family.
5)The role of the child has been drastically altered and
it is the object of a lot of parental affection and
concern.

6.  The industry and the family are well
connected because family members or
persons which are also a part of society run
the industry.
 Occupation determines class and status and
position’s influence on family are being felt.
 Certain aspects impacts on industry and
society including the formation of family
structure, family roles and family
disorganization etc.

7.  We have seen that families in our society are
formed through the “free choice”of men and
women. But this does not mean that the
formation of marriages in our society is a
matter of chance of physical attraction. On
the contrary,it is strongly influenced by social
and economic conditions. These conditions
set limits within which free choice operates in
the selection of marriage mates.

8.  Industry helps form the socio economic
environment within which marriages are formed.
 In the first place, industry has a direct affects in
the formation of marriage between men and
women in the same occupation or who come
from the same occupational levels.For
example:Business exexutives marry women
whose fathers are also businessman.
 In the second place, industry indirectly affects
the formation of marriage through the medium
of class and status or place i.e:marriages occur
between men and women who live within a
relatively short distance of each other.

9.  Marriages in our society do not occur
randomly rather they occur between the twos
who work together or who are brought
together by their positions in the social
structure.
Thus industrialism affects the formation of
marriages in our society.

10.  The influence of industrialism on families is
not confined only to their formation in
various direct or indirect ways. Industrialism
helps to shape various sub types. Sub types
of families occur in relation to
regions,religions,ethnic groups,races and
some other factors. The sub types which are
of interest to us deviate from the “ideal
family” in terms of their position in the class
and status system which is linked to
industrialism.

11.  The role of husband in the family is most
directly influenced by industry. The husband
is a part-time member of the family who
must seek to integrate the work he does with
the demands of family life. He may fail to
achieve integration or he may succeed.If he
does succeed it is by dividing himself into a
“work” self and a “family” self.

12.  The nature of the integration of these selves
differs by occupational levels. They are classified
into three levels. Such as:
1) The Position of the Upper class husband of
society;
2) The Position of the Middle-class husband;
3)The Position of the working-class husband.
Thus occupation and family life are intertwined in
many diverse ways, each status-class position
engendering a pattern of peculiar to itself and
determining the roles that men play in the family.

13.  The employment of married women seems to
be related to two factors:
1)The number and age of children in the family
2)The socio economic status of the husband.
 The income of the female workers is on the
whole inferior to that of men. Women salaries
are only 50 or 60 percent that of men. This
disparity is also found in the same type of
occupational roles within the industries.

14.  The roles of married women in industry vary
from class to class. The classes are as
follows:
1)the working class wife;
2)the middle- class wife;
3)the upper class wife.

15.  At present the relationship between industrialism
and the role of children is almost entirely indirect
one. But this situation was different a centuries
ago. Then children were directly involved with
industrialization. A great portion of children were
involved there. But now the situation has been
changed with time. The parentage now
decreasing day by day. However it can’t be
divided from one another. Because each level of
society produces a specific type or pattern of role
for children.

16.  Some studies have shown that an inverse
relationship exists between status-class
position and fertility. Families are largest
among unskilled workers, lowest among
professional and technical families.
 Some families of differing socio economic
status also show variations in the ages at
which the spouses marry. Here there is a
direct one. For example: the higher the
occupational levels and greater the money
income ,the later the age of marriage.

17.  Adolescent means the child who has
completed his fourteen years but not nine
teen years. Adolescents play a diverse roles in
our society because a large group of people
are involved with labor force and many
adolescents are entering in the workforce.
About 27% of all adolescents are in the labor
force . On the other hand about 1/3 rd is not
in the labor force as they are supported by
their parents.

18.  The aged people have an influence in the
industrial society. At present, the position of the
elderly and the aged has become a vital issue in
our society. Because a century ago, the
percentage of elderly people was less. But day by
day this percentage is increasing gradually . As
elderly and aged people have comparatively less
ability to do work than that of young generation ,
the increase of this percentage has a negative
effect on industrialism. Because they have less
productivity.

19.  Industry has a certain direct and indirect
effects on the disorganization, dissolution of
families. Study shows that the rate of divorce
in the developed country is increasing day by
day due to industrialism.

20.  The extended kin- groups functions to exclude
outsiders who might threaten the class.
 The extended kin-groups seeks to control
choice of marriage mates. It is typical of an upper
class that marriage mates are chosen from the
same level of society though the number of
marriageable individuals is limited.
 The extended family may act as an employment
agency. Individual family members may be placed
in those factories where the family has influence.