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Sociology of Kinship

Notes cannot hypothecate any institution which can give birth and adjust the static or stable human
personality.
Mardock and Parsons both are criticised that they are unable to search the functional alterna-
tive of the family. Some functions are not related to the family specifically. This is argued that
the views like Mardock and Parsons sociologists are emerged mainly from their beliefs which is
related with the matter that how a family should be. The perusal of Barington Moor is apparent:
“Today, it is a postulated concept in social scientists that family is an essential social institution
in cosmopolitan form and it will always exist in future in this form... I feel so uneasy that besides
their labour-means principles and technical researches and investigations the writers cannot do
anything more—retrospecting some medium class expectation and ideals”.
Ferdinand Lundberg has expressed his doubt in his book “The Coming World Transformation”
in these words, “Family is on the verge of its total destruction”. Psychologist William Wolf com-
ments that, “Family remains alive till one or two years from the birth of the child and it dies to-
tally for the remaining time. This is its only function”. The writer of ‘Future Shock’ Elvin Toffler
has named one chapter of his book as broken family. In this chapter he has portrayed a very sim-
ple and workers family which can develop in the age of super industrialism. He has described
this family in the following words- “It was a demand of industrialism that a large number of
workers should always be ready and in the search of employment they can leave their land and
when it is necessary they should be able to return. In this way, the wider family has reduced its
extra weight and gradually the said nuclear family has taken birth which was such minimised
and dynamic family unit in which only mother, father and some children were present.

New type of family was more dynamic than the traditional family, one type of
standard became in all industrialised countries. But in the scope of environmen-
tal technology, in the form of next step of progress the super industrialism de-
mands high dynamicity.

In this way, in future we can expect from many people that by remaining childless; in the form
of male and female will step forward in the process of minimisation and simplification the root
of factor the family. Famous anthropologist Margaret Mead has also expressed such doubt
when he said, “The paternalism will be limited in less number of families whose main function
will be producing children and the remaining part of habitation will come in such a position
to work in independent form of persons for the first time”. These possibilities are not based on
idealism. About one or two years back in the newspapers of England an advertisement was
published about ‘lending foetus’ by a volunteer organization. Surrogate maternity is not a myth
today. Infact, matter about this type of maternity had come in light earlier also. Who knows that
such matter will not come in large numbers in future.
The form of family which is in the Kibuz people of Israel, presents the alternative of the nu-
clear family. About 4% of the habitation of Israel lives in approximately 240 Kibuzum colonies.
Although, there is a lot of difference between one Kibuzum and other Kibuzum, the common
system of family is described in these words. Monogamy is popular among these people. The
married couple lives in bedroom and other rooms together. Children are kept in community
sleeping centers where they live, eat and sleep far from parents. Every day, they are allowed
to meet their parents for one or two hours. Parents never give any education to children on the
occasion of their meetings. These meetings are termed as recreation. In this way, parents divert
their duties to the community. All children are looked as children of Kibuz. In this form they
are looked after. In this way, Kibuz is the negative approach in reference to the role of parents
in a family. There are more factors in Kibuz which introduces negative approach towards the
traditional family management. Nothing is seen between the married couples like coordination

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