Systems of Kinship

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2026In what way the concept of 'patriarchal bargain' be applied to the institution of marriage? Comment. (10 marks)View answer
2025Give an account of the recent trends of marriage in the Indian context. How are these different from traditional practices? (20 marks)View answer
2025In what way does queer kinship challenge the traditional kinship system? Substantiate by giving illustrations. (10 marks)View answer
2024Modern families have not just become nuclear and neo-local, but also filiocentric. How do you explain this trend?View answer
2024What are the 'basic and irreducible' functions of the family as proposed by Talcott Parsons ?Explain.View answer
2024Marriage as an institution has undergone a radical transformation from 'ritual' to'commercial' in its outlook. Explain the factors behind this change.View answer
2023Analyze critically David Morgan's views on family practicesView answer
2023How do you assess the changing patterns in kinship relations in societies today?View answer
2023Does women's education help to eradicate patriarchal discriminations? Reflect with illustrations.View answer
2022Discuss various theoretical perspectives on the family.View answer
2022How do you understand the relationship between patriarchy and social development?View answer
2021Discuss the changing nature of kinship relations in the contemporary world.
2020Discuss the consequences of Across Region marriage on kinship system in modern Indian society.View answer
2020What is the impact of gender division of labour on the development of society?View answer
2020Does the institution of marriage continue to be sacred in Indian society? Comment.View answer
2019In the light of judicial intervention on 'Live-in relationships', discuss the future of marriage and family in India.View answer
2019What, according to Irawati Karve, are the major differences between North Indian and South Indian Kinship systems?View answer
2018What are the new forms of family in developed societies? Discuss.View answer
2018Distinguish between family and household with reference to the concept of development of the household.View answer
2018Define patriarchy. How does patriarchy manifest in interpersonal relations?View answer
2017Examine 'patriarchal bargain' as gendered division of work in contemporary India.View answer
2017Examine the relationship between the contemporary trends in marriage and changing forms of familyView answer
2017Discuss the regional variations of kinshipsystem in Indian society.View answer
2016To what extent is patriarchy a cause for the problems of women ? Discuss.View answer
2016Discuss the contemporary trends in family as a response to social change in modern society.View answer
2016Distinguish between family and household as sociological concepts.View answer
2015Is male authority absent in matrilineal society? Discuss.View answer
2015How do the rules of descent and alliance in  kinship differ from each other ? Illustrate.View answer
2014Critically examine the functionalist views on the institution of family. How do those help us in understanding family in the present times?View answer
2014What do you understand by institutionalization of ‘live-in – relationship’ ?View answer
2013Analyse the contemporary trends in family with examples.View answer
2013Is patriarchy a universal phenomenon ? Critically examine how does patriarchy affect sexual division of labour in societies.View answer
2013Examine the emerging trends in marriage and family as a response to the charges in economic and social order.View answer
2012Describe the importance of lineage and descent in kinship and family.View answer
2012Show how family is distinct from household.
2011Write short note on Lineage and Descent from a sociological perspective (in about 150 words).View answer
2011What you mean be marriage and family? Discuss the structural and functional changes in family in modern society.View answer
2010Write short note on Kinship and Social Capital.View answer
2009Discuss the emerging forms of marriage and family with examples from the West and the East. Can there be family without marriage? Examine.View answer
2009Write short note on Industrialization and changes in the family’s functions.View answer
2008Write short note: New trends in the types and forms of family in contemporary India.View answer
2007Write short note: Changing structure of family.View answer
2006Write short note: Nuclear family and industrial society.View answer
2005Elucidate changing structure of family and marriage in modern society.View answer
2005Write short note: Role of Family in Social Control.View answer
2004Write short note: Gender Roles in Changing Structure of Family.View answer
2003Discuss the meanings and significance of culture in Human Society. Critically bring out the role of Culture in the Development of personality.View answer
2003Elaborate on the concepts of Family and Lineage. Discuss the relationship between Rules of descent and inheritance of property.View answer
2002Distinguish between Sex and Gender issues with suitable examples.View answer
2002In what way is the process of socialization helpful in the development of personality? Explain with suitable examples.View answer
2001Write short note : Incest taboo.View answer
2000Discuss the factors responsible for the changing structure of family in modern societies.View answer
1999Social control is more a matter of conviction than that of coercion. Comment. Discuss the role of ideology in social control.View answer
1998‘Socialization is a process by which all of us acquire the culture that we transmit to the next generation’. Elaborate the statement and discuss its various stages.View answer
1996Compare the role of custom as an agency of social control in primitive and modern industrial societies.View answer
1996Write short note : Impact of changes in sexrole on family.View answer
1995What has been the impact of industrialisation on family and kinship organisation ? Illustrate the significance of kinship organisation in the industrial societies.View answer
1995Write short note : Primary group.View answer
1995Write short note : Role of culture.View answer
1994Explain the view that the nuclear family “fits” the needs of industrial society. Is it that the structure of nuclear family is the same in all industrial societies ?View answer
1993Give a brief account of the trends in sociological analysis of change in traditional family and kinship systems in the face of industrialisation.View answer
1993Bring out the relationship between culture  and personality. Discuss with examples the differences in personalities in the same culture.View answer
1992Short note : Social consequences of increase in the rate of divorce.View answer
1991Write short note : Social control.View answer
1990Write short note : Socialization and personality.View answer
1989How do changes in the age and sex roles in the family affect the social structure itself ?View answer
1988Write short note : Structural principles of kinship.View answer
1985How does culture influence personality ? Can personality influence culture ? How ?View answer
1985What are the agencies of social control? Which is the most effective one in a democratic society ?View answer
1984Analyze scientific theory of culture.Will the crisis in culture in the contemporary society facilitate the emergence of  new man ?View answer
1984Discuss family as a basic and fundamental social institution. Do you think changing sex roles necessitate the replacement of family by another institution ?View answer
1984Write short note : Change in sex roles and the socialisation of children.View answer

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