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The document discusses different types of families including extended, nuclear, variations like arranged marriages, polygamy, and rules around who can marry such as exogamy and endogamy.

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The Family Institution

- Extended Family
- Siblings, Cousins, Aunts, Uncles, and Grandparents
- More Relevant in Traditional and Agricultural Societies

Nuclear Family

- Wife, Husband, and their children


- More relevant in industrial societies

Variations of the family

- Arranged Marriages
- Parents commit their children to the children of other parents
- Traditional societies where ages of marriage is young
- Parent better able to make a wise choice for compatibility and economic interest

Polygamy: Marriage to several partners

- Polygyny: One husband, more than one wife, male dominated, highly stratified societies

Who you can marry

- Exogamy Marriage outside the group


- Endogamy Marriage inside the group
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