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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Give a brief account of the trends in sociological analysis of change in traditional family and kinship systems in the face of industrialisation.

  • UPSC 1993
  • Systems of Kinship

Sociological analysis of how industrialisation affects family and kinship has moved through distinct phases. It began with a thesis of breakdown and convergence, met a historical-revisionist challenge, and then gave way to conflict, feminist and non-Western readings that stress adaptation and diversity.

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  • 1. Breakdown and "fit": the classical–functionalist trend
  • 2. Historical revisionism: continuity, not rupture
  • 3. Conflict and feminist analysis
  • 4. Indian studies: an adaptive joint family
  • Conclusion

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