LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY

CATEGORIES OF KINSHIP

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
A social and economic unit that consists of one or more parents and their children
A
Family
B
Blood relative
C
Consanguine
D
Kinship
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -A family is a social and economic unit consisting minimally of one or more parents (or parent substitutes) and their children. Members of a family have certain reciprocal rights and obligations, particularly economic ones.

Detailed explanation-2: -The family is generally regarded as a major social institution and a locus of much of a person’s social activity. It is a social unit created by blood, marriage, or adoption, and can be described as nuclear (parents and children) or extended (encompassing other relatives).

Detailed explanation-3: -Economic family refers to a group of two or more persons who live in the same dwelling and are related to each other by blood, marriage, common-law union, adoption or a foster relationship. By definition, all persons who are members of a census family are also members of an economic family.

Detailed explanation-4: -family, a group of persons united by the ties of marriage, blood, or adoption, constituting a single household and interacting with each other in their respective social positions, usually those of spouses, parents, children, and siblings.

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