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Question: ‘The Family Is Universal’. Evaluate this clam.
Answer: This claim means that the nuclear family is the basic unit found
within all societies. Functionalists, such as Murdock, agree with this
claim, suggesting that the nuclear unit is ideal and biologically
inevitable. However, there is an opposing argument which suggests that
it is possible to live in alternative living arrangements which do not
fit Murdock’s definition of the family.
In 1949 the American anthropologist George Peter Murdock published the
results of a major survey of kinship and the organization of families
based on a worldwide sample of 250 societies....(short extract)
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Details: Mark: 71% | Subject: Sociology | Course: Sociology | Level: A-Level | Year: Not applicable | Document type: Essay* | Words: 1603 | References: No | Date written: Not available | Date submitted: November 05, 2008 | Essay ID: 3276
