Understanding Social Institutions

Question

Write in short the meaning of the following terms/words :

(i) Folkways (ii) Family

(iii) Nuclear family (iv) Joint Family

(v) Kinship

Answer

Folkways : Characteristics of main features of a given community or customs and habits or some typical behaviour (conduct) patterns are called folkways.

Family : It is a universal institution and has existed thoughout the history of society. Family, basically, is made up of individuals having kinship, relationship among themselves.

Nuclear Family : Family consisting husband, wife and unmarried children.

Joint Family : Family consisting of members of three or more than three generations staying together under a common roof and with a common kitchen.

Kinship: Social relationship based on real, putative or fuctive consanguinity. It is the system of the way in which the relations between individuals in the family and between are organised.

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