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Examine the emerging trends in marriage and family as a response to the changes in economic and social order.

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  • Systems of Kinship

The claim that family change responds to changes in the economic and social order comes from functionalist "fit" theory. Talcott Parsons argued that industrial society needs a mobile, isolated nuclear family reduced to two "basic and irreducible" functions: primary socialisation and stabilisation of adult personalities. William J. Goode (World Revolution in Family Patterns, 1963) extended…

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  • Social order and family trends
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