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“Nuclear families grow into joint families and then break into nuclear families. The change from nuclear to joint and from joint to nuclear families is fairly frequent in India.” Explain the changes in the structure and functions of joint family in this context.
- UPSC 1995
- Systems of Kinship in India
The statement describes rotation, not decay. Meyer Fortes, introducing The Developmental Cycle in Domestic Groups (1958), supplied the concept it rests on: a domestic group is a process in time, so the same unit is nuclear at one moment and joint at another. Read this way, the changes to be explained are changes within a…
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- The developmental cycle, and why the oscillation is normal
- Changes in structure
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