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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note : Legislation and socio-economic change in family.

  • UPSC 1994
  • Systems of Kinship in India

The real question here is one from the sociology of law: can a statute change a family institution ahead of opinion? William Graham Sumner, in Folkways (1906), answered no — stateways cannot change folkways. The Indian record neither confirms nor refutes him cleanly; it specifies the conditions under which law bites.

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