许多社会学家认为,在现代工业社会中,家庭已失去它的许多功能。诸如商店、政党、学校和社会福利组织这样一些机构现在分别承担了过去由家庭履行的一些功能。帕森斯论证说,“从‘宏观上’说”,家庭已经变得“几乎完全没有功能了。家庭本身,不论在什么地方,都不再承担经济生产活动;它不再是政治权力体系中的重要单位;它不再是较大社会整合中的主要直接机 Many sociologists believe that in modern industrial society, families have lost many of its functions. Organizations such as shops, political parties, schools and social welfare organizations now each undertake some of the functions performed by the family in the past. Parsons argues that “from a macro perspective,” families have become “almost completely ineffective.” The family itself, no matter where it is, no longer assumes economic activity; it is no longer in the political power system It is no longer the main direct engine of larger social integration