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What are the new forms of family in developed societies? Discuss.

  • UPSC 2018
  • Systems of Kinship

For much of the twentieth century, sociology took Talcott Parsons' isolated nuclear family (married couple, male breadwinner, dependent children) as the normal family of industrial society. Since the 1970s, what Ron Lesthaeghe and Dirk van de Kaa called the second demographic transition (later marriage, low fertility, rising cohabitation and divorce) has broken that template. Robert…

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  • The new forms
  • Why these forms have emerged
  • A more cautious reading
  • Beyond the West
  • Conclusion

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