← Unit 4: Marriage, Family and Kinship
1. Q: Discuss the effects of generation gap in Indian society with examples.
OPSC 2006, Q2 | 60 marks | approx. 600 words
Introduction
DefinitionGeneration gap is the cultural, attitudinal and value distance between successive generations. The term entered social science in the 1960s when rapid post-war change made the break between parents and children unusually visible. In India the gap has been widened by the speed of urbanisation, the expansion of education, the liberalisation of the economy after 1991, and the penetration of global media. Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa influentially argued that the gap is not a biological given but a cultural product, larger in rapidly changing societies than in stable ones.
Sources in India
Economic transformation. The shift from agricultural and artisanal occupations to service and gig employment means that children often do not follow parental trades and lack the guidance that craft transmission provided.
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- Q: Discuss the effects of generation gap in Indian society with examples.
- Q: Examine the impact of legislation and socio-economic change on marriage and family in India.
- Q: Distinguish between the household and the family. Why is this distinction important to understand the changes that the Indian Family has undergone over the last more than one century?
- Q: Impact of recent legislations on family and marriage
- Q: Dowry and bride price
- Q: Matrilineal societies
- Q: Generation gap
- Q: Kinship system
- Q: Is family jointness in a state of transition? Answer with reasons and give sociological studies in support.
- Q: Endogamy
- Q: Bring out the importance of marriage in Hindu Social System. Why has it been regarded as a sacrament?
- Q: Explain the major impacts of legislations and socioeconomic changes on marriages in India.
- Q: Explain regional variation in kinship systems and its socio-cultural correlates in India.
- Q: Is there continuum of nuclear and joint family systems in India? Examine critically.
- Q: Describe the forms of marriage prevalent in India with suitable examples.
- Q: Write on different types of marriage payments across diverse groups in India.
- Q: Discuss tribal marriage — its traditional features and changing trends.
- Q: Explain the structural and functional aspects of the family in India.
- Q: What is generation gap? Discuss its causes in contemporary Indian society.
- Q: Differentiate between North Indian and South Indian kinship systems with examples.
- Q: Discuss the future of the institution of marriage in India.