... relationship, and one or more children, own 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 socialisation and culture, sexual to bring ... that in 19th century/20th century it was forbidden in some societies and gravely looked down on. Nowadays homosexuality is frowned upon by society however it is approved of. To ...

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