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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note on Industrialization and changes in the family’s functions.

  • UPSC 2009
  • Systems of Kinship

In pre-industrial society the family was a multi-functional institution: a unit of production, school, welfare agency, church and court rolled into one. Industrialisation moved work to the factory and brought specialised institutions into being. Sociologists disagree on whether the family has consequently lost, specialised or enhanced its functions.

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  • The loss-of-functions thesis
  • The specialisation thesis
  • The enhancement thesis
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