Industrialisation and ‘Fitness’ of Nuclear Family: A Case Study in India

1974 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.K. Roy
Keyword(s):  
2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. s774-s774
Author(s):  
G. Citak Tunc ◽  
N. Eren

Objective.This study investigates the case of a female patient, who was experiencing marital problems and had separated from her spouse, with whom an art (drawing) therapy process was carried out.Aim.It was aimed to address the relationship of the couple by supporting the ego and increasing self-awareness skills by means of art materials (drawings) in the process of the situational crisis.Method.Case study.Result.With this case study, it was aimed to make emphasis on the impact of drawing sessions as a means of using art in therapeutic relationships for self-awareness and opportunity for development in a situational crisis during marriage.Conclusion.During the process of individual art therapy, nine sessions and eight drawing tasks were conducted. The case patient, OS, had been separated from her spouse for 2 months. In the first session, a personal history was taken, the scores of the state-trait anxiety scale was evaluated and a therapy plan was jointly developed. Each action was carried out by providing specific instructions. Each session was evaluated within the same week in a supervision meeting with an expert experienced in art therapy and the next session was planned. OS, who developed self-awareness as a result of the sessions, evaluated his/her expectations and boundaries in his/her relationship and discovered the connections with her own nuclear family. In a session with OS one year later, she gave the information that she had started to share a house with her spouse.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.


2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kartiki Porwal

Individuals who are socially connected are happier and healthier than their more isolated counterparts. Over the past few decades, researchers have established that both the quantity and quality of our social relationships are unequivocally important when it comes to our physical and mental health, and our risk of mortality. Although the link between social relationships and mental health is well established in a couple, we have only just begun to identify explanations for this link. Recently, social scientists have discovered that the link between social relationships and health is explained by our behaviours (e.g., smoking, exercise, diet), various psychosocial factors (e.g., social support, mental health, cultural norms), and physiological processes. Aggression in marital relationship is defined as a manipulative, physical or non-physical form of aggression meant to negatively impact the development of relationship by social exclusion or harming the social status of a victim by spreading or behaving negatively. Research findings suggest that even infrequent experiences with relational aggression victimization are associated with lower subjective well-being such as depression, loneliness, and positive affect. This case study investigates the existence of relational aggression in a couple and the relationship between relational aggression and own subjective well-being. The participant in the study is married and from nuclear family. The study tries to investigate aggression level through the case study method and relaxation, yoga, meditation techniques used which was used to resolve the aggression and helps to achieve well being.


2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 92-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Fortunato

My aim in this article is to elucidate the relevance of the evolutionary paradigm to the study of kinship and marriage systems. I begin with a discussion of conceptual and methodological issues that arise in approaching human social systems from an evolutionary perspective. I then narrow the focus on key tools used in contemporary cross-cultural research within evolutionary anthropology. Next, as a case study, I provide an overview of work aimed at reconstructing the (pre)history of the nuclear family in Indo-European-speaking societies, focusing on the interplay between monogamous marriage and neolocal residence. I conclude with musings on the prospect of a biologically based social anthropology.


Author(s):  
Kristen Hoerl

This chapter introduces this book’s central contention that Hollywood film and television have taught audiences that capitalism and the traditional family have triumphed over Sixties-era resistance to corporate culture, structural racism, and patriarchy. Hollywood’s fictionalized portrayals of late sixties dissent routinely depicts radical protesters as problems that must be overcome to preserve national unity and the nuclear family. This introduction explains how fictionalized portrayals of Sixties-era dissent are forms of public memory that offer lessons about appropriate models of civic engagement in late-capitalist democracy. These portrayals are forms of selective amnesia, public discourse that routinely omits events and issues that defy seamless narratives of national progress and unity. The last section of the introduction provides an overview of the book’s case study chapters which are organized by recurring narrative patterns and character types across different media products since the early eighties.


1993 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Scott Smith

The history of the family lacks a history. Sociologists and historians rarely cite interpretative literature written before the last third of the twentieth century. Curiously, at least for the discipline of history, recent scholars have seemingly regarded older perceptions as relics of a prescientific past.This foray into intellectual history will demonstrate that ignoring the history of this field also distorts it. My case study considers what is widely regarded as the largest revision in thinking about the history of the family—the complete overthrow of what William J. Goode, the sociologist most credited with its rejection, has derisively called (1970: 6) “the classical family of Western nostalgia.” Kertzer and Hogan (1988: 84) have aptly summarized the chief elements of the interpretation overturned by the revisionists: “Until recently, the popular image of Western family history pictured people as living in large extended family units that had multiple functions. With the advent of industrialization, it was thought, this system was transformed into one characterized by small, nuclear family units having more specialized functions.”


2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (35) ◽  
pp. 167-177
Author(s):  
Ghandi Mathi S Dharmalingam ◽  
R. Sivaperagasam P. Rajanthiran

Among the many factors that play an important role in a student's life is family. The structure and parenting style which is being practiced in a family decides the student's future academic achievement. This research is done in order to examine the influence of family structure and parenting style towards the academic achievement of remove class students in government schools. Observation and interviews were closely conducted on a total of ten students. Their teachers were interviewed and school documents were also analyzed to get more excellent and accurate results. School going pupil's movements and whereabouts need to be monitored and nurtured. Family members from an extended structure are able to complete all the responsibilities compared to a nuclear family. Parents play an important role in providing suitable support for their children. Parents who practice an authoritative parenting style, directly or indirectly have an influence on the academic achievement of the students.


2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 118
Author(s):  
Grace Luntungan

 Abstrak         Tindak Tutur Langsung Tidak Lateral pada Keluarga Batih yang Berbahasa Melayu Manado. Komunikasi dalam lingkungan keluarga Batih yang berbahasa Melayu Manado tidak terlepas dari tindak tutur langsung tidak literal. Bentuk tindak tutur dan maksud dari penutur dapat menimbulkan tanggapan atau reaksi yang berbeda-beda. Setiap tindak tutur dapat mencerminkan banyak hal. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan tindak tutur langsung tidak literal pada keluarga Batih yang berbahasa Melayu Manado, dan menjelaskan cerminan dari tindak tutur yang muncul dalam komunikasi di lingkungan keluarga Batih. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah metode kualitatif dalam bentuk studi kasus pada sebuah keluarga Batih yang terdiri dari ayah, ibu, anak laki-laki dan anak perempuan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa tindak tutur langsung tidak literal muncul dalam bentuk kalimat berita, kalimat perintah dan kalimat tanya. Tuturan yang menggunakan kata kita dan ngana mencerminkan dua corak relasi di antara sesama anggota keluarga Batih, yakni corak relasi egaliter dan corak relasi hierarkhis.Kata kunci:    Tindak tutur langsung tidak literal, keluarga Batih,                                  Bahasa  Melayu Manado AbstractDirect Nonliteral Speech Act in the Nuclear Family that Uses Manado Malay. Communication within the nuclear family that uses Manado Malay cannot be disengaged from the direct nonliteral speech act. The form of speech acts and the intention of the speaker could cause a different response or reaction. Each speech act can reflect many things. This study aims to describe the direct nonliteral speech act in the nuclear family that uses Manado Malay,and to explains the reflection of speech acts that may appear in daily communication among the nuclear family. The research method used is qualitative method in form of case study for a nuclear family which consists of father, mother, son and daughter. The results show that the direct nonliteral speech act are appeared in affirmative sentences, imperative sentences and interrogative sentences. The speech act using the word “kita” and “ngana” reflects two styles of relationship among the nuclear family. Those are the egalitarian relationship and hierarchic relationship.         Keywords: Direct nonliteral speech act, nuclear family, Manado Malay


Author(s):  
Zeynep Deniz Seven ◽  
Serdal Seven

In this study, the synchronisation characteristics of mothers and their 3-year-old children living in extended and nuclear family types were examined in a semi-structured play process. In this study, grounded multi-case research, which is a type of case study, was used. The participants of the study consisted of 12 mothers and their 3-year-old children, 6 of them are from an extended family type and 6 of them are from a nuclear family type. Observational and interview techniques were used to describe the interactions of the studied group in detail. As a result, interactional synchrony behaviors were very limited in all mother–child couples in the extended and also nuclear families. However, it was observed that the eye contact of mothers was inadequate. Keywords: Interactional synchrony, parents, social interaction, family, attachment.


Africa ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 510-534 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Price ◽  
Neil Thomas

AbstractRecent criticisms of demographic theory and methodology have pointed, inter alia, to the need to take on board advances in cognate disciplines. This case study of the Gwembe Valley Tonga of Zambia highlights the important methodological contribution that social anthropology can make to the sub-discipline of family demography. It provides evidence of the empirical invalidity of the ‘family nucleation’ paradigm, which holds that a shift towards conjugal marriage and nuclear household residence patterns is an inevitable consequence of globalisation, and a precursor of the social and economic changes necessary for the fertility transition. According to nucleation theory, evidence of increased conjugality will be reflected in the reduced symbolic importance of the lineage and ancestors; greater marriage stability; the demise of polygyny and widow inheritance; reduction in the size and significance of bridewealth payments; increasing age of first marriage for women, and decreasing age differentials between spouses. The case study therefore focuses on recent changes in the matrilineal kinship system, notably the emergence of localised lineages, and the extent to which these changes reflect family nucleation (largely but not exclusively in terms of increased conjugality). By analysing household structure and marital residence patterns, including the role played by the husband/father in family affairs, nuptiality (notably bridewealth, divorce and polygyny), inheritance and the role of ancestors, the case study demonstrates that changes in the family and kinship structure in response to local social and economic transformation can be equated not with nuclearisation but with the emergence of a modified form of family and kinship, quite distinct in structure and meaning from the nuclear family.


1990 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 319-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter E. Siegel

This paper focuses on the demographic and architectural organization of a South Amerindian tropical-forest community. The household, as the most important social, economic, and behavioral unit in this society, is reflected in the strong quantitative relations between the floor areas of the various structure types and the associated number of occupants. In contrast, floor area/number of occupants relations at the nuclear-family level are quantitatively weak. Since the aboriginal household was also the most important economic and demographic social unit in the South American tropics, the present study may be used to estimate prehistoric settlement population levels using excavated data. As such, this study encourages the use of the direct-historical approach by archaeologists working in the lowlands of South America.


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