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Institutions of Divorce, Family, and the Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Paul Bohannan  and
Karan Huckleberry
Paul Bohannan
Affiliation:
Northwestern University
Karan Huckleberry
Affiliation:
Northwestern University
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Social scientists are accustomed to thinking of the family as a primary social institution. They are less accustomed to thinking of it as one of the primary “back-up institutions” of American society. A back-up institution carries out the work of some other institution of society when that other institution fails in its task. The back-up institution might have been called an “institution for redundancy,” defining redundancy with Hall as “information [or action] from one [institutional] system which is backed up by other systems in case of failure.” Thus, if the original institution fails in its purpose, some other institution takes over its tasks or goals, and fulfills its functions in either the original or a modified form.

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Research Article
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Law & Society Review , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , June 1967 , pp. 81 - 102
Copyright
Copyright © 1967 by the Law and Society Association

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Footnotes

Authors' Note: The work on this paper was carried out, in part, under grants from the National Science Foundation (GS-61) and the National Institute of Mental Health (Nos. MH 06551–01 and MH 06551–02). We acknowledge our gratitude to both foundations.

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