Priyamvada Ashok MhaddalkarAIR 13 · CSE 2021 · 146 wordsTheir whole copy
Opening · a definition
G.P. Murdoch defines family as a social group based on economic cooperation, common residence and reproduction.
Body · points
Household on the other hand is a common unit of residence. Household dimension gained significance as households can be enumerated for census purposes.
Family on the other hand is a social unit, based on kinship ties and hence cannot be enumerated. Family is usually based on blood and affinal relations.
Household is based on economic ties and marked by commensality and common roof.
A.M. Shah through his study 'Household Dimension of Family in India' helped explain how joint family still persists despite claims of increasing nuclearization.
Pauline Kolenda explains the cyclical process of fission-fusion-fission that separates family from household.
India has different types of households → single parent households, cohabitation, houseless households.
Close · a summary
Thus, due to increasing modernization and urbanization family has become an imaginary concept and household is the reality.