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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Incest taboo.

  • UPSC 2001
  • Systems of Kinship

The incest taboo prohibits sexual relations, and usually marriage, between persons defined as close kin. George Peter Murdock (Social Structure, 1949) found it in every society in his cross-cultural sample, always covering the nuclear family. It is universal in core yet variable in scope, which makes it a central puzzle of kinship theory.

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