Thinker
David Schneider
David Schneider is central to 4 previous-year questions, spanning 2015 to 2025 across Paper I. Everything below is drawn from the official papers — the questions themselves, the concepts they test, and where they sit in the syllabus.
4Questions
2015–25Years tested
IPaper
1Syllabus topics
Concepts asked alongside David Schneider
What the examiner actually wants you to know when this name appears.
families of choice 2individualisation 2kinship 2authority versus descentavunculatechosen familydescent and affinitydescent and marriagedescent and residencefictive kinshipheteronormativitymatrilineal puzzlematrilinynew reproductive technologiesnuclearisationpatriarchysocial construction of kinship
Where David Schneider appears in the syllabus
Every question on David Schneider
Each links to a full breakdown — how to approach it, a model answer, and the examiner’s perspective.
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