The family and society - class-VII

In a family, it is very important that members should understand each other feelings and respect those feelings. The family should be formed by trust, love and mutual understanding.

Family tree is a diagram or representation showing the relationship between people in many generations of a family. It helps us relating ourselves from any person from our family. It is a historical data.

Jean Jacques Rousseau wrote the quote "A man is born free but everywhere he is in chains". Rousseau was a influential philosopher, writer and composer of eighteen century Europe. In his quote Rousseau tries to state that all humans are born with equal rights but some are deprived of these rights and enslaved by the chains of compulsion force. The chains of slavery, poverty, class, sect are the indicators that man is enslaved at some level.

Usually, family consists of a group of parents and their children living together as a single unit. A tribe is a social division of society consisting families with links such as social, economic, religious, etc. A society is a group of individuals living together who share similar geographic or social territory. A state is a civil government of a nation with a community of people exercising power over specified territory. Option D - a family is the correct answer, as the smallest and first unit which came into existence. 

Family plays an important role in the mental, physical and emotional development of a child. The family provides a secure and supportive place for a child that is essential for his/her good upbringing.

Apart from patriarchal families , in matriarchal families women are the head of the family. In this system, family relations can be traced through females. In south Karnataka Bunt communities follow this practice. They are found basically in coastal districts of Karnataka.

Matriarchy is a social organization where the mother is the head of the family. In Kerala, women enjoy a higher status as compared to other Indian states. This is reflected by Kerala's sex ratio and literacy rates. Marumakkathayam was a matrilineal inheritance system prevalent in Kerala, where property inheritance was traced through females. Officially, the state has banned matrilineal family structure by the Kerala Joint Hindu Family System (Abolition) Act, 1975. Kerala state legislature passed this act. Hence, option B Kerala is the correct answer.   

A joint family is a type of family that includes two or more generations related to either the paternal or maternal line who maintain a common residence and lives together. It is a type of extended family composed of two or more than two parents and their children living together.

A family is really an important word. A family is a basic social unit consisting of parents and their children. A family can be of two types, either nuclear family or joint family. A nuclear family is a group of the family consisting of two parents and their children.

A family is defined as a group of people related by blood, marriage, or adoption, who typically live together in a single household.

An individual is a fundamental unit of a society. Individual form a family, family form a community and from community society are formed. Thus individual-family-community-society is the correct form for the development of the society.

Society is built upon social interaction among various people while the community is the collection of people with similar interest and ideology residing in a place. Society and community are interdependent for fulfilling their mutual need and benefits. The cohesion between two is to ensure the survival of each other harmoniously.

1. The number of members - differ from family to family.
   2. We need to raise our voice - for the rights of people.
   3. Society helps - to lead a peaceful life.
   4. We depend on - each other.

A family is a basic social unit consisting of parents and their children. A family can be either nuclear or joint. Living in one house and sharing meals cooked under the same room is also termed as a family. A family is a group of people related to each other either by birth, marriage, or co-residence.

A community is a group of people living in the same place or a group of people having a particular characteristic in common. Our relatives, classmates, neighbours, and playmates co-exist in a community.

Benefits of a community are as follows:

People depend on each other for survival, fulfilling needs and other interest. No man can fulfil his requirements alone. Everyone needs the assistance of others for this purpose and that is how civilisation develops and social relations came into being. We are dependent for services and other needs.

A single family is also known as a nuclear family. It consists of husband, wife and their younger children.

Patriarchy is a social organization where father is the authority figure in the family. This is a social system where power is held by men and cultural norms, customs favor men. Matriarchy is a social organization where mother is the head of the family. The descent and relationship are recognized through the female line.

A family is a basic social unit consisting of parents and their children. Members living in a family are father, mother, brother, and sisters.

A society is a group of individuals sharing the same geographical or social territory involved in any social interaction. When many communities live together, they form a society. It is also termed as large number of people sharing a geographical territory lives together, talk together, makes rules together and work together.

People depend on each other for various things in a family, community or in society. For example, children depend on parents for education, food, and shelter. Employees depend on an employer for salary. Common man depends upon banker for cash. People depend on the government for basic utilities.

Child development happens physically, emotionally, socially and intellectually.