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Discuss the factors responsible for the changing structure of family in modern societies.

  • UPSC 2000
  • Systems of Kinship

Family structure (size, composition, residence, authority and roles) changes when its economic, demographic, legal and cultural environment changes. Sociologists agree that several factors are at work but disagree on which is primary: material conditions, as functionalists and Marxists hold, or ideas and values, as William J. Goode and later demographers argue.

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