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What do you understand by institutionalization of ‘live-in relationship’?

  • UPSC 2014
  • Systems of Kinship

A live-in relationship is the cohabitation of an unmarried couple in a sexual and domestic partnership, without the rites or registration of marriage. Institutionalisation is the process by which a practice becomes a stable, patterned, normatively regulated and legitimate part of social structure. So the institutionalisation of live-in relationships means cohabitation moving from deviance, to…

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