A Microfunctional Definition:
“A unit of intimate, transacting, and interdependent persons who share some values, goals, resources, and responsibility for decisions, as well as a commitment to one another over time.”
- Steinmetz, Suzanne K., Sylvia Clavan and Karen F. Stein. 1990. Marriage and Family Realities: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. New York: Harper and Row. P. 12.
Examples?
- Juvenile gangs, college sororities and fraternities, church congregations?