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H e finds that the individuated nuclear family is emerging in 32 READINGS I N KINSHIP I N U R B A N SOCIETY the Dutch countryside as well as in large towns and that its highly uneven distribution is to be understood chiefly in terms of regional cultural patterns and that the degree of urbanization is merely a secondary factor. H e concludes that urbanization, far from accounting for everything, may in fact account for little or nothing. It is hard to disagree with Kooy's conclusion. Either we mean by this term "the concentration of the population into large settlements", in which case it is impossible to show that the large size of settlement determines the nature of the social structure of its inhabitants, or we give the term a sociological definition which involves a description of the very phenomena which we are trying to explain.
I n other words any sociological explanation of these differences must depend on placing the family within the structural context of the societies of which it forms part and tracing the way in which each structural feature affects family behaviour. Kooy's study (p. 297) also focuses on the process of urbaniza tion, but he does not use it as his chief theoretical variable. Rather he hypothesizes that settlement size is related to and therefore an indicator of the four processes which he considers of theoretical importance: mechanization, secularization, socio-cultural dif ferentiation, and individuation.
I f this is not the case in America then this raises a whole set of fascinating questions. A r e differences between the two countries to be attributed primarily to their different industrial structure, to the varying degrees of social and geographical mobility, to the different cultures which they possess? I n other words any sociological explanation of these differences must depend on placing the family within the structural context of the societies of which it forms part and tracing the way in which each structural feature affects family behaviour.