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Sociology · Chapter 3 · 1. Social Institutions
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- Family: definition, MacIver's features and functions; reasons for its universality
- Types of family: consanguineal and conjugal (family of orientation and procreation), matriarchal and patriarchal, nuclear and joint
- Structural and functional changes in the family; disintegration of the joint family and its causes
- Small family norm: meaning, features and merits