The concept "fictive kin" refers to the
A) upper class preoccupation with genealogy and the tracing of lineage.
B) increasing geographic separation of nuclear families from their immediate kin.
C) exchange of goods and services between friends that resembles kinship.
D) replacement of legal marriage by the increasing incidence of long term nonmarital cohabitation.
C
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