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How do changes in the age and sex roles in the family affect the social structure itself?

  • UPSC 1989
  • Systems of Kinship

Age and sex are the oldest bases of ascribed status. Ralph Linton (The Study of Man, 1936) treated them as universal bases of role allocation, and Talcott Parsons and Robert F. Bales (Family, Socialization and Interaction Process, 1955) described the family's role structure along two axes: generation (power) and sex (instrumental–expressive). A shift on either…

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  • The traditional fit
  • Changing age roles
  • Changing sex roles
  • Limits of change
  • Conclusion

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