When Raju got a new government job at Patna and relocated from his rural hometown, his parents refused to go along with him. So Raju and his wife moved to Patna and settled there. Such incidences often lead to structural changes in family. Which among these is a cause of change in this case?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Economic
Option (1) Political — Incorrect. Nothing in the case involves the state, power or a political event; the move came from a job.
Option (2) Economic — Correct. The structure of the family is related to other structures of society, political, economic and cultural. When people migrate in search of work, the family’s composition changes: men leaving Himalayan villages leave women-headed families behind, and parents in the software industry bring grandparents in as care-givers. Raju moved because of a new job, and his family became a nuclear one in Patna: an economic cause.
Option (3) Education — Incorrect. Raju’s education may have helped him get the job, but the change in the family came from his moving for work, not from schooling.
Option (4) Cultural — Incorrect. No change in values or customs is described; the parents stayed back, and the couple moved because of employment.
NCERT (2025-26): “3.3 Family and Kinship … This internal structure of the family is usually related to other structures of society, namely political, economic, cultural etc. Thus the migration of men from the villages of the Himalayan region can lead to an unusual proportion of women-headed families in the village. Or the work schedules of young parents in the software industry in India may lead to increasing number of grandparents moving in as care-givers to young grandchildren. The composition of the family and its structure thereby changes and these changes can be understood in relation to other changes in society.… …As we saw however, families have different structures and these structures change. Sometimes these changes occur accidentally, as when a war takes place or people migrate in search of work.…” |