... or adopted, of the sexually cohabiting adults". Murdock was a functionalist therefore suggestively did not consider other alternatives to what a family could be, to me his definition of family is strong proof of his functionalist views. He believed the family had 4 functions: economic for provision of food, educational for ... culture, sexual to bring husband and wife together and reproductive to provide members for society, also for the functionalist point of view that a family was like a machine: preparing children for adulthood/jobs, thus a relationship between family and economy was s...

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