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Discuss the contemporary trends in family as a response to social change in modern society.

  • UPSC 2016
  • Systems of Kinship

The family is both shaped by social change and a mediator of it. William F. Ogburn saw it losing functions as technology moved production, education and protection elsewhere. Functionalists read present-day family trends as adaptation to a changing environment, while Marxists and feminists read them as responses shaped by capitalism and patriarchy. Each major process…

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  • Social change and the family's response
  • Is the response mechanical?
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