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Mobility of individual members and family groups tends to split up family relationships.
Occasionally the movement of a family away from a situation which has been the source of friction results in greater family organization, but on the whole mobility is disorganizing.
Individuals and families are involved in three types of mobility: movement in space, movement up or down in social status, and the movement of ideas. These are termed respectively spatial, vertical, and ideational mobility.
A great increase in spatial mobility has gone along with improvements in rail and water transportation, the invention and use of the automobile, and the availability of airplane passenger service. Spatial mobility results in a decline in the importance of the traditional home with its emphasis on family continuity and stability. It also means that when individual family members or the family as a whole move away from a community, the person or the family is removed from the pressures of relatives, friends, and community institutions and stability. Even more important is the fact that spatial mobility permits some members of a family to come in contact with and possibly adopt attitudes, values, and ways of thinking different from those held by other family members. The presence of different attitudes, values, and ways of thinking within a family may, and often does, result in conflict and family disorganization. Potential disorganization is present in those families in which the husband, wife, and children are spatially separated over a long period, or are living together but see each other only briefly because of different work schedules.
One index of the increase in vertical mobility is the great increase in the proportion of sons, and to some extent daughters, who engage in occupations other than those of the parents.
Another index of vertical mobility is the degree of intermarriage between racial classes. This occurs almost exclusively between classes which are adjacent to each other. Engaging in a different occupation, or intermarriage, like spatial mobility, allows one to come in contact with ways of behavior different from those of the parental home, and tends to separate parents and their children.
The increase in ideational mobility is measured by the increase in publications, such as newspapers, periodicals, and books, the increase in the percentage of the population owning radios, and the increase in television sets. All these tend to introduce new ideas into the home.
When individual family members are exposed to and adopt the new ideas, the tendency is for conflict to arise and for those in conflict to become psychologically separated from each other.
1. Intermarriage and different occupations play an important role in family disorganization because( ).
2. Which of the following statements is TRUE about people living in a traditional family according to the passage?
3. Which of the following statements can summarize the passage?
4. Potential disorganization exists in those families in which( ).
5. This passage suggests that a well-organized family is a family whose members( ).

问题1选项
A.they permit one to come into contact with different ways of behavior and thinking
B.they enable the children to travel around without their parents’ permission
C.they allow one to find a good job and improve one’s social status
D.they enable the children to better understand the ways of behavior of their parents
问题2选项
A.They are less likely to quarrel with others because of conventionality and stability.
B.They have to depend on their relatives and friends if they do not move away from it.
C.They will have more freedom of action and thought if they move away from it.
D.They can get more help from their family members if they are in trouble.
问题3选项
A.Social development results in a decline in the importance of traditional families.
B.The movement of a family is one of the factors in raising its social status.
C.Potential disorganization is present in the American family.
D.Family disorganization is more or less the result of mobility.
问题4选项
A.both parents have to work full time
B.the husband, wife, and children work too hard
C.the husband, wife, and children seldom get together
D.the family members are subject to social pressures
问题5选项
A.never quarrel with each other even when they disagree
B.are not psychologically withdrawn from one another
C.often help each other with true love and affection
D.are exposed to the same new ideas introduced by books, radios, and TV sets
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