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Why is the study of marriage important in Sociology? Analyse the implications of changing marriage patterns for Indian society.

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  • Systems of Kinship in India

Marriage converts biology into structure: it produces not children but legitimate children, and with them succession and group membership. George Peter Murdock (Social Structure, 1949) defined it by approved sexual access, common residence and economic cooperation; Claude Lévi-Strauss (The Elementary Structures of Kinship, 1949) read it as the exchange the incest taboo compels. In India…

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