women were allowed more and more access to new child-rearing technologies and focused more on child turnout than economic growth. By acting to liberate and equate the interests of women this movement molded the spheres of influence and traditional roles of the existing connected family model. Thus, kin-direct motherhood styles quickly became obsolete due to the sudden increase amongst women in modern thinking and technology. The new nuclear family was one full of individual freedoms that were foreign to most families, in that they only knew of the traditional family practices. That explains how American family life as a social institution has the ability to be re-defined via modern sociological theory and concept.To further prove the power of sociological research, the co-housing to NEL model transformation occurred. The co-housing model was established in the late 1960s strictly for the purpose of reforming some of the undesirable characteristics of 1950s family life for those residing. It emphasizes interdependence of neighbors in a community, whereas residents can even have cross-household responsibilities within their neighborly setting, and both children and adults become integral parts of their immediate social web. These responsibilities were mainly those of involvement in others child-rearing, without any distinct political or social agendas. It is not an attempt to revolutionize family life or public policy, so much as it was a comfort zone for structure-desiring families.Clark3Idealist beliefs were established by those who felt as though they understood the structure of society and its functions. This vision called utopian realism was usually a distorted reality that was based around existing fact and theory. This new concept fathered the modernized co-housing based community know as the New Everyday Life. Unlike the co-housing model, the NEL model was equipped with social and political agendas towards the promotio...
