What did William Goode mean by the term “cultural convergence”?

What will be an ideal response?


ANSWER:
His theory was that once family networks were disturbed and young people began to have a greater role in the destruction of the extended family (deemed too traditional and backward), then a perfect fit would occur between the Western nuclear or conjugal family and the demands of industrialized modern society.

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