Note
Specific Continuing with the family example, it is probable that the nuclear type of family arrangement is a fairly common feature in most - if not all - societies at some point in their development. In modern Britain, for example, we can find clear examples of just this type of family structure and, as Robert Chester ("The Rise of the Neo-Conventional Family") has argued - probably validly - most people in Britain have some experience of living within a nuclear family structure for at least some part of their life. This is not to say, however, we can't also find a wide range of cultural variations (single parent families, step families, homosexual families and so forth). |