Quiz 2 Answers

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1. Talcott Parsons is the guy who talks about it. Basically he argues that as societies develop and become more complex, they need more specialised institutions and structures in order to function effectively. 2. Laslett and Anderson. 3. RD Laing. 4. Couples who ‘live apart together’. 5 No more than 2 generations. 6. Put it this way - there are lots of different types of families, but they don’t necessarily live together (extended family, LATs). But a household is a co-residing group – it may not always correlate closely with one particular family form. 7. Polygamy is a general form of marriage involving multiple partners – bonus marks if you can explain the varieties of polygamy. 8. This refers to the tendency to marry someone from the same social group e.g. class, ethnic group. Another term with broadly the same meaning is ‘marital endogamy’. Interestingly, this is what tends to happen, generation after generation. 9. The Nayar would be one example. 10. Ann Oakley.