In this lecture, we will study about:
1. Talcott Parsons views on changing nature of Family due to impact of industrialisation.
2. William Goode views on Family and Kinship and the concept of Role Bargaining.
3. Wilmott and Young concept of Symmetrical Family.
4. Post Modernist views on Family, Marriage and Sexuality
5. Anthony Giddens concept of Plastic Sexuality, Confluent love and Serial Monogamy.
6. Zygmant Bauman concept of Liquid love.
7. Changing patterns of Marriage and Divorce.
8. Increase in marital breakdown in post industrial and post modern societies.
9. Rappaport and Rappaport talks about family diversity - Reconstituted families or step families, Single parent households, Unwed Motherhood, Dual Career Families, Homosexual families.
10. Concept of Bean Pole families.
11. Contemporary trends in family, marriage, kinship, love and sexuality.

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