ABSTRACT
A central theme in the study of the modernization of societies has been the transformation of the family. This chapter seeks to clarify the changing family patterns associated with modernization by examining ethnic differences in family living arrangements in Israel in 1972, focusing in particular on the likelihood of living alone or with unrelated adults. The ethnic categories normally constructed from the concepts measured in the Israeli Census of 1972 are based on religion, national origin, and generation in Israel. The distinction between occupations and industries is all the more important because the referential formulas, RDOD and RDID, are identical except one refers to occupations or occupational categories and the other refers to industries or industry categories. The ethnic differences that appeared are those that would be expected to result from group adjustments to long-term change in social structure, the pattern of variation most consistent with the modernization theories of family change.
