What is family?
Family is that unit of social life whose every member is related either through blood relation or marriage or adoption. Maclner and Page define family by saying that it is a group defined by relationship, sufficiently practiced and endures to provide for the procreation and upbringing of the children.
What evidence would you offer against the view that “tribes are primitive communities living isolated lives untouched by civilisation?
What are the factors behind the assertion of tribal identities today?
What are some of the different forms that the family can take?
In what ways can changes in social structure lead to changes in the family structure?
Explain the differences between matriliny and matriarchy.
What are the characteristics of the various forms of the family—Discuss.
Describe the different degrees of kinship relationships.
Discuss the problems of tribal communities in India?
State the constitutional provisions enshrined for protection of the schedule tribes.
Discuss the problems of the scheduled castes.
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