Families Flashcards
(27 cards)
What is a breadwinner
The person who is the main income earner
Example sentence: The breadwinner of the family lost their job.
What is the cereal packet family?
Traditional image of the nuclear family through media
Additional information: Often portrayed as a mother, father, and two children.
What is cohabiting?
Partners living together without being married
Example sentence: The couple decided to cohabit before getting married.
What is a commune?
A small community whose members share ownership of property and labour
Additional information: Communes can be formed for various reasons such as sustainability or communal living.
What is divorce?
The legal termination of the family
Example sentence: The couple went through a difficult divorce process.
What is a nuclear family?
Family group consisting of 2 parents and 2.5 children
What is an extended family?
A family with at least 3 generations living under the same roof
What is a Reconstituted/blended family?
The joining of 2 families after one or both partners separated from previous partners
What is a lone-parent family?
A family where theres is one parent bringing up children
What is a same-sex family?
A family made up of a same sex couple with children
What is a household?
A group of people living under the same roof
Name the Murdocks view on families?
Family serves 4 functions:
• Sexual
• Educational
• Reproductive
• Economic
What is Parsons view on family?
Family serves 2 functions:
• Primary socialisation
• Stabilisation of adult personalities (SOAP)
What did Parsons believe regarding primary socialisation in the family?
Family is responsible for teaching the values and norms necessary for being part of society
What type of roles do mothers and fathers take on in the family?
• Mothers play the expressive role
• Fathers play the instrumental role
Name a criticism of functionalist views on family
• Functionalists ignore inequalities that take place in the family e.g. Child abuse
• Functionalists, ignore inequalities that take place in society, such as ethnic gender and class, inequalities
• Their research can be seen as outdated, now people have children outside of marriage
• gender roles have become obsolete, families are dual earners or have joint conjugal roles
How do families support capitalism?
• By buying into the economy, the proletariat help the bourgeoisie increase their profits
• Through primary socialisation future generations are taught, norms and values to support capitalism
What are Zaretskys views on family?
• families question, the effects of capitalism
• housewives helpful reproduce the next generation of workers
• family is a consumer unit
What are criticisms of Marxist views on family?
• Marxist views on the family are outdated, women, no longer need to rely on men for financial stability
• marxists ignore the positive aspects of family
What is the feminist view on families?
• Families are negative
men benefit from womens labour
• Family is responsible for ensuring that patriarchy remains
Name a criticism of feminist views on the family?
• Do not consider other inequalities such as class or ethnicity
• Critics of feminism think that feminism presents women as being passive
What is the dual burden?
Women are oppressed because they have to carry out tasks at home after coming back from work
What is a family?
A family is two or more people linked by birth, marriage, cohabitation or adoption
What are conjugal roles?
A conjugal role refers to all the responsibilities carried out between a married couple
