This chapter explains the cultural and normative levels of social practice. It offers a preliminary exposition of the culturally and socially dominant notions of family. Armed with Bourdieu's typology, the chapter identifies the prototypical family and interrogates its status of cultural dominance. The prototypical family, then, operates as a realized category. The nuclear family as a realized category forms a gestalt which incorporates many specific cognitive models. The doxic aspects of the family which are taken for granted and experienced as universal escape unarticulated in mundane discourse. Orthodoxies are also not particularly interesting topics of familiar discussion. Interestingly, the misrecognition of economic calculations involves both a doxic and an orthodox element. It is doxa when applied to lineal relationships. It is orthodoxy when applied to collateral relationships. While the mate is an essential aspect in Australian mythology, it is not an essential aspect of Australian social practice.