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Examine the impact of industrialization and urbanization on family structure.

  • UPSC 2016
  • 20 marks
  • Industrialization and Urbanisation in India

A. M. Shah made the observation on which this question turns: a census enumerator records a household, a residential and commensal unit at a doorstep, while sociologists make claims about the family, a kinship group that may span several cities. Once the two are separated, the claim that industry and the city destroyed the joint…

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  • The claim to be tested
  • The Indian counter-evidence
  • What has actually changed
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