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Write short note: Industrialisation and family change in India, with examples.

  • UPSC 2006
  • Systems of Kinship in India

Talcott Parsons held that the structurally isolated nuclear family fits industrial society because it frees labour for geographical and social mobility, and William J. Goode generalised this into a world convergence on the conjugal family. Indian industrialisation has produced a different result, and the studies are the argument.

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  • The classic industrial studies
  • Business communities: kinship as industrial infrastructure
  • The worker's split household
  • The contemporary case
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