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Discuss family as a basic and fundamental social institution. Do you think changing sex roles necessitate the replacement of family by another institution?

  • UPSC 1984
  • Systems of Kinship

R. M. MacIver and Charles H. Page (Society, 1949) defined the family as a group defined by a sex relationship precise and enduring enough to provide for the procreation and upbringing of children. It is basic as the first group everyone enters and fundamental because other institutions rest on it. Changing sex roles revive the…

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  • Do changing sex roles require its replacement?
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