Families and Households: SOC20041 (SOC20041)

This essay will discuss multiple aspects of how family and marriage have become detraditionalised. Firstly, by discussing the meaning of family and marriage in the past and comparing it to how and what family and marriage are today. I will then proceed to examine various dimensions including the trend toward individualization, the postponement of marriage, the expansion of the stepfamily structures, and the diminishing rate of marriage in China. Additionally, I will explore the increase in divor...