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The Family
What is the ‘family’? Key terms and concepts  that you will be able to define by the end of this session: ,[object Object]
Households
George Murdock and the traditional nuclear family,[object Object]
I want you to imagine that you are the editor of the Oxford Dictionary. You have to create a definition to place under ‘family’. In your groups write your entry. Try to be concise.  What are the keywords that you are using?
The actual Oxford Dictionary gives us the definition of: A group consisting of parents and children living together in a household. What are your thoughts on this simple definition?
In 1949 the sociologist George Murdock said that the family was: ‘a group of people who live in the same house. It includes adults of both sexes, at least two of whom have to have a socially approved sexual relationship, and one or more children, own or adopted’

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