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    The document discusses the definition and types of families. It defines a family as consisting of a householder and one or more related individuals living in the same household through birth, marriage, or adoption. Families can be nuclear, consisting of parents and children, extended, including additional relatives, or joint, encompassing multiple generations living together. The functions of family are also examined from the perspectives of functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism.

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    The document discusses the definition and types of families. It defines a family as consisting of a householder and one or more related individuals living in the same household through birth, marriage, or adoption. Families can be nuclear, consisting of parents and children, extended, including additional relatives, or joint, encompassing multiple generations living together. The functions of family are also examined from the perspectives of functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism.

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    The document discusses the definition and types of families. It defines a family as consisting of a householder and one or more related individuals living in the same household through birth, marriage, or adoption. Families can be nuclear, consisting of parents and children, extended, including additional relatives, or joint, encompassing multiple generations living together. The functions of family are also examined from the perspectives of functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism.

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    What is Family?

    • Family is a basic unit of Social Structure.


    • Family, as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau

    “A family includes a householder and one or


    more people living in the same household who
    are related to the householder by birth,
    marriage, or adoption.”
    ….(continued) What is Family?
    • In the most basic definition, a group of people who share a legal bond or
    a blood bond is a family.
    • Legal Bonds: Families are legally bound through marriages, adoptions,
    and guardianships, including the rights, duties, and obligations of those
    legal contracts. Legal bonds can be changed, expanded, or dissolved to
    change the composition of a family.
    • Blood Bonds: Individuals who are directly related through a common
    ancestor are part of a family. This includes both close and distant
    relatives such as siblings, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, nieces,
    nephews, and cousins. Researching a family tree or genealogical records
    can reveal familial blood bonds.
    • Despite the apparent simplicity of this definition of family, the idea of
    family goes far beyond just legal or blood relationships for many people.
    Types of Family in Bangladesh
    • Nuclear Family
    In modern times, a nuclear family is simply defined to be a
    social unit with a mother, father, and children
    • Extended Family
    This is simply the extension of an nuclear family. This family
    consists of grandparents, parents, children, uncle, aunties.
    • Joint Family
    This is a type of extended family consisting of grandparents,
    parents, children, uncle, aunties, wife/husands of
    uncles/aunties, cousins.
    Functions of Family according to
    Functionalists
    • It socializes children, it provides emotional
    and practical support for its members,
    • it helps regulate biological relationship and
    reproductive activity,
    • it provides its members with a social identity.
    • In addition, sudden or far-reaching changes in
    the family’s structure or processes threaten its
    stability and weaken society.
    Functions of Family according to Conflict
    Perspectives
    • The family contributes to social inequality by
    reinforcing economic inequality and by
    reinforcing patriarchy.

    • The family can also be a source of conflict,


    including physical violence and emotional
    cruelty, for its own members.
    Functions of Family according to Symbolic
    Interactionists
    • The interaction of family members and
    intimate couples involves shared
    understandings of their situations.

    • Wives and husbands have different styles of


    communication, and social class affects the
    expectations that spouses have of their
    marriages and of each other.

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