MALAYSIA'S FAMILY/HOUSEHOLD PATTERNS

By RHODA HABTEMICHAEL

General Characteristics of Agricultural, Industrial, and Information Age Family/Household Patterns

• Agricultural Age Family/Household Patterns:local cultures (organized around rural communities or city-states)

• Industrial Age Family/Household Patterns:national cultures (organized around the nation-stat)

• Information Age Family/Household Patterns: globalization of cultures (organized around an increasing interdependent world),creating surface level global unity along with deeper level local diversity of the world's cultures. Increased danger of localized cultural conflicts in post cold War era--as people seek new indentities without sufficenties without suffient recognition of global interdependence needs and dangers of war in a technologiacal age. New non-localized virtual communities also emerging in cyberspace

Information/Data on Malaysia's Family/Household Patterns: agricultural age- they have an extended family and granparents still live with the sons or doughters and his/her family

Conclusions on malaysia (Whether Primarily Agricultural, Industrial, or Information Age Re: Its Family/Household Patterns) : Malaysia has a more agricultural household patterns, however, becouse of their economyic revolution many people are moving to cities to work. Their traditional life style is leading to industrial age family household

Additional Online Sources on Malaysia's Family/Household Patterns

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Traditional Bibliographic Sources on Malaysia's Family/ Household Patterns

• CULTURGRAM 1996.