FAMILY

CONTENT
 INTRODUCTION
 DEFINITION OF FAMILY

 GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF FAMILY

 TYPES OF FAMILY

 FUNCTIONS OF FAMILY
INTRODUCTION
 Family
- Institution
- Association
- Backbone of social structure

 The family is a small group consisting ordinarily of a

father and mother, one or more children and sometime
near or distant relatives.
DEFINITION OF FAMILY

FAMILY

‘FAMOUS’(LATIN WORLD)

SERVANT
DEFINITION OF FAMILY
 “Family is a more or less durable association of husband
and wife, with or without child, or of a man or woman
alone.” (M.F. Nimkoff)
 “Family is the biological social unit composed of
husband, wife and children.” (Eliot and Merril)
 “Family is a group defined by sex relationship
sufficiently precise and enduring to provide for the
procreation and upbringing of children.”(Maclver)
CHARACTERISTICS OF FAMILY
FAMIL
Y
AN A MATING
ECONOMIC RELATIONS
PROVISION HIP

SELECTIO
A COMMON
N OF
RESIDENCE
MATES

A WAY OF
A FORM OF
TRACING THE
DESCENT MARRIAGE
TYPES OF FAMILY
FAMIL
Y

JOINT

NUCLE MOTHER
AR CENTERED

FATHER
CENTERED
FUNCTIONS OF THE FAMILY
 Four functions (Kingsley Devis)
- Reproduction
- Maintenance
- Placement
- Socialization
 Six functions (Ogburn and Nimkoff)

- Affectional
- Economic
- Recreational
- Protective
- Religious
- Educational
 Four functions (Reed)

- Race perpetuation
- Socialization
- Regulation and satisfaction of sex needs
- Economic functions
FUNCTIONS OF THE FAMILY
 Essential functions (Maclver)
- Stable satisfaction of sex needs
- Reproduction of procreation
- Production and rearing of child
- Provision of home
- An instrument of culture transmission
- An agent of socialization
- Affectional functions
- Economic functions
- Educational functions
- Religious functions
- Recreational functions