... the pre-industrial society, that modernisation took place so easily because the family was already mobile. He uncovered historical evidence that between 1504 and 1821, only 10% of families could be described as extended. Other sociologists such as Fletcher and Short claim that the pre-industrial families simply neglected their many 'non-basic' roles (such as health and education) due to poverty. They have linked this to society today convincingly, by revealing that today parents dote over their children much more, and would never let them degenerate into what pre-industrial parents would be happy to see their children as. Fletcher believes that family became a unit of consumption instead of production. Marxists agree with this stand, and also add that the idea of consumption is the way post-industrial/modern society motivates it's workers, by making them by frivolous items with their wages, earnt at dissatisfying and irrelevant occupations. Willmott and Young believe in the privatisation and ...

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