EDUCATION (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Maclver defined family as “a group defined by a sex relationship sufficiently precise and enduring to provide for the procreation and upbringing of children”.

Detailed explanation-2: -According to MacIver and page, “family is a group defined by a sex relationship, sufficiently precise and enduring to provide for the procreation and upbringing of children”. According to Elliot and Mercl, “Family is the biological social unit composed of husband, wife and children”.

Detailed explanation-3: -An extended family is a family group which includes relatives such as uncles, aunts, and grandparents, as well as parents, children, and brothers and sisters. Young mothers in such a community have the support of their extended family.

Detailed explanation-4: -According to Burgess and Locke, ‘Family is a group of persons united by the ties of marriage, blood or adoption; consisting a single household, interacting and intercommunicating with each other in their social roles of husband and wife, mother and father, son and daughter, brother and sister creating a common culture.

Detailed explanation-5: -Functionalist Sociologist George Peter Murdock used the following definition of the family as a starting point in his classic cross national study of families in more than 250 societies. ‘A social group characterised by common residence, economic cooperation and reproduction.