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Distinguish between family and household as sociological concepts.

  • UPSC 2016, 2012
  • Systems of Kinship

Early definitions merged the two ideas. George Peter Murdock (Social Structure, 1949) defined the family as a group with common residence, economic cooperation and reproduction. Later work, including Donald R. Bender (1967) and Peter Laslett (Household and Family in Past Time, 1972), separated kinship (family) from co-residence and domestic functions (household). The difference matters because…

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