Household and Family in Theory on Inequality
论文指出家庭作为基本单位在不平等理论中至关重要，因为家庭内部权力结构影响资源分配，且家庭在人口和社会结构上存在差异，其分配原则常与生产组织不同，经济与非经济交换规则共存导致不平等理论中的诸多问题。
Households organized as families are essential units in theory on inequality because they redistribute the product of larger organizations: the consumption of resources by individuals is influenced by the power structures of their families. Households vary demographically as well as in social structure, and redistribute according to varying principles that typically contrast with those of production organizations. In pa; ticular the rules of exchange-economic vs. noneconomic-under which distribution takes place may differfrom those under which redistribution takes place. Many issues in inequality theory stem from the fact that economic and noneconomic rules of exchange are both present in the same social settings.