Family and Community · Class 6 Social Science
Practise 6 short and long answer questions on Family and Community from Family and Community. Try writing your own answer first, then tap the question to compare it with the model answer and read the explanation behind it.
A joint family has several generations living together, including relatives such as grandparents, parents, uncles, aunts, brothers, sisters and cousins.
The description appears in the chapter’s section on family.
A nuclear family is limited to a couple and their children, and sometimes one parent and children. A joint family includes several generations living together.
These definitions are stated in the textbook.
The chapter calls the family the fundamental and most ancient unit of society. Family members ideally support one another in their duties and tasks, making family life an important basis of social life.
The answer follows the chapter’s opening and recap.
A community may be people connected by religion, region, common work or interest. The chapter gives examples such as a school art community, a farming community, and communities linked by religion or place.
The chapter explicitly gives these types and examples.
The chapter says people in a family and a community support one another. It gives examples of communities based on shared interests or activities, showing that people belong to different groups and rely on cooperation. This is why the recap describes communities as interdependent.
The explanation draws from the chapter’s concluding summary.
The chapter asks students to identify rules followed in their family and neighbourhood and explain why they are important. Rules can help people live and work together, but the chapter also asks whether some rules may be unfair to a few people. This encourages students to consider both the purpose of rules and their effects on different members of a community.
Both aspects are directly raised in the chapter’s end questions.