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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Analyse the contemporary trends in family with examples.

  • UPSC 2013
  • Systems of Kinship

A trend is a sustained, directional change, not a passing fashion. Contemporary family change can be broken into five components: size and composition, internal relations, functions, stability and the range of recognised forms. Taken together, and in how they interact, they show that the family is diversifying rather than declining.

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  • 1. Size and composition
  • 2. Internal relations: authority and roles
  • 3. Functions
  • 4. Stability
  • 5. Diversity of forms
  • How the components interact
  • …and 2 more sections, with a conclusion

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