Emmanuel Todd's theory classifies human societies into four primary family structures based on two axes: liberty versus authority and equality versus inequality. These structures are the Absolute Nuclear Family, the Egalitarian Nuclear Family, the Authoritarian (Stem) Family, and the Community Famil
According to anthropologist Emmanuel Todd, family structures influence politics because the unconscious values of liberty and equality experienced by children within their family homes are projected onto society as political ideologies in adulthood.
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