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Examine the reasons for changes in the patterns of marriage, cohabitation and divorce in the last 30 years.
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SOCIOLOGY EXAM Examine the reasons for changes in the patterns of marriage, cohabitation and divorce in the last 30 years. Throughout the study of sociology, one of the most important studies has been that of a family. Theorists such as Young and Wilmott, Talcott Parsons and even Karl Marx have tried to explain the evolution of the family, why certain patterns exist. However, looking at the area of marriage, divorce and cohabitation, it is really in the last 30 years of study that the major changes have occurred. There is an ever growing increase in the divorce rate, people are living together without being married for longer and marriage is being seen more and more as a legal contract. The reason for these changes is because of laws, changing norms and values and changes in the connotations with words such as divorced parents, single mother and cohabitation. Firstly, the major factor in the...
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