The Family and the Household

• Family - basic unit of social organization
• George Peter Murdock - family share common residence, reproduce offspring, include adults of both sexes, presence of economic cooperation, and responsible for the socialization of infants and children
• Kingsley Davis - Family is a group of individuals wherein the relationship is based on consanguinity and kinship.
• Talcott Parsons - family is a factory that develops and produces human personalities
• Bronislaw Malinowski - family i an institution that passes down the cultural traditions of a society to the next generation
• Types of Families:

  1. Nuclear Family
  2. Extended Family
  3. Blended Family
• Nuclear Family - type of family made up of a group of people who are united by social ties
• Extended Family - type of family whose members go beyond the nuclear family made up of parents and their offspring
• Blended Family - Also known as reconstituted family, step family, or complex family
• Blended Family - type of family where the parents have a child or children from previous marital relationships