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The most important group is the family. Nuclear: two adults and their children Extended nuclear: grandparents / aunts uncles may live
close by but in separate accommodation Extended. All members share the same accommodation in
which a hierarchy of authority (usually) with the older / providers having greatest
authority. Families, clans and tribes represent increasing groupings
who provide or help one another’s members. This provides identity and requires
obligations. Genes are perpetuated within a tribe or larger social
group, and values (culture - maps for understanding) are concentrated. Many of the
determinants of social groupings have an economic, or by one step removed, political
origin to do with control of access to resources and reproduction.
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