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Analyze critically David Morgan’s views on family practices.

  • UPSC 2023
  • Systems of Kinship

David H. J. Morgan, a British sociologist, proposed family practices (Family Connections, 1996; Rethinking Family Practices, 2011) as a way out of an impasse. The structural approach of Talcott Parsons froze "the family" into one type. Radical postmodernism threatened to dissolve family analysis altogether. Morgan's solution is to study not what the family is but…

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