Which is the basic unit of society?

🔑Key Points:
Family is defined as a specific group of people that may be made up of partners, children, parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents.
It is our family that teaches us the social norms, manners, and the way of life for the first time. 
Family fulfills our basic needs such as food, cloth, shelter, etc. It ensures love and security for all the members of the family.
It is from the family that we start making social relationships, develop and retain such relations. 
That is why the family is said to be the basic unit of society.

🔴Additional Information:
On the basis of size and structure or according to the number of members, family may be classified into two types:​
Nuclear Family
Joint Family or Extended Family
A nuclear family is a family which consists of husband, wife and their unmarried children. 
A joint family is a family which consists of that consists of various generations – grandparents, parents, and children. There can be cousins, uncles, and aunts too. Here, all these relatives stay under one roof.