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Bring out the significance of the difference between family and household.

  • UPSC 2016, 2011
  • Systems of Kinship in India

The distinction looks like a definitional nicety and is the hinge on which Indian family sociology turns. A. M. Shah, in The Household Dimension of the Family in India (1973), insisted that the household is a residential and commensal group a census can count, while the family is a kinship group spanning households and cities.…

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  • The contrast, criterion by criterion
  • Significance one: what the evidence can support
  • Significance two: one family, several household shapes
  • Significance three: the household is the unit of the Indian state
  • Significance four: gender, and the myth of the unitary household
  • Significance five: forms the word "family" cannot hold
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion

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