Find out how membership, residence pattern and even the mode of interaction change in the family with broader economic, political and cultural changes, for instance migration.

(ii) In fact no other social institution appear more universal and unchanging as we find family.

(iii) Sociology and social authropology have over many decades conducted field research across cultures to show how the institutions of family, marriage and kinship are important in all societies and yet their character is different in different societies. They have also shown how the family (the private sphere) is linked to the economic, political, cultural, educational ( the public) spheres.

(iv) Due to economic change in the field of industries our joint family system has been disappearing and unclear family is taking its place in Urban area particularyly and in rural area generally.

(v) The family, the household, its structure and norms are closely linked to the west of society and interesting example is that of the unintended consequences of the German Unification.

(vi) During the post unification period 1990s Germany witnessed a rapid declive in marriage because the new German state witdrew all the protection and welfare schemes which were provided to the families prior to the Unification.

(vii) With growing sense of insecurity people responded by refusing to marry.

(viii) family is thus a subject to change and transformation due to macro-economic processes but the direction of change need not always be similar for all countries and regions. Moreover, change does not mean the complete, erosion of previous norms and structure. Change and continuity co-exist.

(ix) Cultural change like language script, literature, music, dance, style, religion, etc. change the membership of family, residence pattern and even the mode of interaction among the members of family. If the members of the family love more individualism and personal libery. The joint form of the family as well as traditional type of discipline day by day disappears from the family. Income of the family, profession of the family, duty hours of the family, political changes of the country or new progressive laws and acts definately effect the pattern of family and even position of the family. The migraturer of members of the family to foreign country effects the total membership of family. Area of residence change even the mode of interaction changes the people who had gone outside the country interact with the other members of the family on telephone or internet or send. e-mail etc.