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Big
Families Can Be Small Communities
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Module
Introduction (Hub)
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Documents
Included in this Family
Module
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Some
organizations can be either communities or families, or both
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and communities
have many things in common. |
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Indeed,
some can be classed as both or either. |
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sociological study of family life and inform the study of communities,
and the study of communities can be useful in understanding families. |
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While
families are usually limited to organizations which have relations of consanguinity
(blood) or affinity (marriage and its extensions), increasingly there are
alternatives to traditional or orthodox residential groups, making the
definition of family broader, and more in the realm of both families and
communities. |
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It is useful and
revealing to combine the study of communities and families, both in terms
of applied sociology, eg understanding methods of empowerment, and in terms
of pure sociology; eg understanding their natures (forms and functions).
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module is not a true module in the sense that it has different kinds of
documents for different purposes and different readers. |
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All
are related to the sociological study of family and kinship, most are derived
from my lecture notes, and all are intended to make it easier for a beginning
student to understand the sociology of family and kinship |
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