单词 | extended family |
释义 | > as lemmasextended family c. Sociology. Of a family, etc.: that comprises not only parents and children but also consanguine and conjugal relatives living in proximity. Frequently in extended family. ΚΠ a1942 B. Malinowski Sci. Theory of Culture (1944) 168 The function of the extended family I would define in terms of a more effective exploitation of communal resources. 1951 R. Firth Elements Social Organization iv. 142 The help is given as part of the reciprocities of kinship relations—to a second cousin, or uncle, or other member of an extended kin group. 1960 New Left Rev. Jan. 27/2 Among working-people you had extended families, often overlapping. 1966 D. Jenkins Educated Society iii. 98 The extended, as distinct from the nuclear family. < as lemmas |
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