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Understanding Social Institutions
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Why Marriage is called an universal institution ?

Answer

1. Marriage is called an universal Institution because it is practised in all human societies throughout the world.

2. Every society from primitive to modern time has had the institution of marriage but its form and nature has varied from time to time, from society to society.

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Some More Questions From Understanding Social Institutions Chapter

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.

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