Thinker
William J. Goode
William J. Goode is central to 7 previous-year questions, spanning 2009 to 2019 across Paper I and Paper II. Everything below is drawn from the official papers — the questions themselves, the concepts they test, and where they sit in the syllabus.
7Questions
2009–19Years tested
I & IIPaper
3Syllabus topics
Concepts asked alongside William J. Goode
What the examiner actually wants you to know when this name appears.
nuclearisation 3individualisation 2structural differentiation 2changing familychanging gender rolescohabitationconjugal bondfamily diversityfit between family and economyfunctional familygeneralisabilitygeographical mobilityinstitutionalisationisolated nuclear familylegal recognitionloss of functionsloss of functions thesismodernisation
Where William J. Goode appears in the syllabus
Every question on William J. Goode
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2014
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