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Write short note: Changing structure of family.

  • UPSC 2007
  • Systems of Kinship

The structure of a family is the patterned arrangement of its positions and relationships: its size and generational depth, composition, residence, authority, roles and links to wider kin. William J. Goode (World Revolution and Family Patterns, 1963) found every one of these moving, across societies, towards a conjugal pattern, though at different speeds and with…

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