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Discuss the emerging forms of marriage and family with examples from the West and the East. Can there be family without marriage? Examine.

  • UPSC 2009
  • Systems of Kinship

William J. Goode (World Revolution in Family Patterns, 1963) predicted a global convergence towards the conjugal family with free choice of spouse. Six decades on, both West and East show diversification rather than a single model. That diversity also revives an old question in kinship theory: is marriage the necessary foundation of the family?

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  • Emerging forms in the West
  • Emerging forms in the East
  • Can there be family without marriage?
  • Conclusion

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