Young and Wilmott's theory

According to Young's and Wilmott's study there are four different stages of the Symmetrical Family. The first stage is pre-Industrial Family. It is the first and th most undeveloped kinf of familis when they were as units of production. Everyone in the family worked together in agriculture. Workplace and home weren't separated. Second stage is The early Industrial Family. Members of families are now work to earn money. Home and workplace are separated. There was a tend in making good relations with different relatives. Women are now more responsible for different domestic duties whereas men’s purpose is to earn money for the family. This stage happens more often in working class. The reasons of appearing next stage are that women became more independent and most of them employed. Families become more independent and nuclear and less children in the family which gives an opportunity to women to get jobs. And so the next stage is called Symmetrical Family as there is an economic and social equality between men and women, husband and wife now share their ideas and experience between each other. And the last stage was predicted by Wilmott and Young in the extension of the theory 'Principle of Stratified Diffusion'. Upper class will set trends of family life. And so bottom classes will take as example lives of directors, managers. According to this theory, life will become more work-centred rather than home centred. Husbands will spend more time at work and their entertainment will also be connected with worklife while wives will be responsible for domestic duties.