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What has been the impact of industrialisation on family and kinship organisation? Illustrate the significance of kinship organisation in the industrial societies.

  • UPSC 1995
  • Systems of Kinship

In kinship-based and peasant societies, kinship is the organising principle of social life: it allocates land, work, authority, marriage partners and protection. Industrialisation separated work from home and status from birth, which transformed this organisation. Research shows that it reshaped kinship rather than abolishing it.

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  • Impact of industrialisation
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