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Understanding Social Institutions
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What is the role played by society is establishing legal-sex relationship ?

Answer

The sex-relationship in human society in highly constrained. Who, when, and with whom will have this relationship is determined by society. For regulating legal sex-relationship, society has designed and evalued the institution of marriage.

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Some More Questions From Understanding Social Institutions Chapter

Explain the following words/ terms. Empirical Investigation, Ideology, Legitimacy, palygamy, polygeny, Monogamy.

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

(i) Folkways (ii) Family

(iii) Nuclear family (iv) Joint Family

(v) Kinship

Write the meaning of the following terms/words :

(i) Patrilocal (ii) Matrilined (iii) Patrilineal (iv) Matrilocal (v) Gotra (vi) Sapindara (vii) Fraternal Polyandry (vii) Non-fraternal polyandry (ix) Socialisation (x) Extended Family.

Write the meaning of the Affinal Relation.

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Why Marriage is called an universal institution ?

Write in short three reasons responsible for the emergence of the institution of marriage.

Explain the meaning Bureucracy.

Explain the meaning of political Institutions.

What is meant by Begaar ?