Family And Households Flashcards
(23 cards)
What is a family?
Groups of people related by blood, marriage, adoption
What is a household?
Group of people who live together regardless of whether they are related by blood or marriage
What is a collective conscience?
The agents of socialisation teaches us right from wrong, everyone shares this view
What is social solidarity?
By learning the same things, these core functions show society how to feel attached to the one another and be in a stable environment
How do we learn a collective conscience?
- Education- secondary socialisation
- Media- unconscious following
- Religion- social cohesion, unity, sense of belonging
- Family- primary socialisation
- Peer group- exclusion, copy behaviours
True or false: peer group teach you social solidarity
True because often you share similar similar behaviours, styles, language
What is Durkheim’s anomie theory?
The state in which there is a breakdown of social norms and guidance, caused by rapid social change
What is a value consensus?
During socialisation, we all internalise the norms and values of our culture, providing social order
What is Parson’s organic analogy?
Each institution in society works together like parts of the body, each part being necessary and useful
Give a criticism of the Functionalist view
- Overly optimistic
- Ignores issues and exploitation
What are Murdock’s 4 functions of the family?
- Sexual
- Economic
- Education
- Reproduction
What are Parson’s two irreducible functions of the family?
- Primary socialisation
- Stabilisation of adult personalities
What is infrastructure in Marxism?
Economic base of society
What is superstructure in Marxism?
Justify inequality to proletariat using infrastructure
What is the hidden curriculum?
Learns norms and values as well as formal curriculum in school
What is a correspondence principle?
Education mirrors society
What do Marxists think about the education system?
Creates a sense of alienation and are motivated by external rewards
What is false class consciousness?
Being unaware of your exploitation is how bourgeoisie maintain control over proletariat (brainwashing)
What is ideology?
A set of beliefs and values around a core principle that a person has
What is economic determinism?
Everything in life, according to Marxists, is affected by the economy
What does Zaretsky say?
- Family creates the illusion of private life but the anxiety and stress of work interferes with private life
- Family ‘props up’ capitalism, it is a source of capitalism as they spend a lot of money
- Reproduction of future workers as families create and socialise children into capitalist norms and values
- Family is a unit of consumption of the products of capitalism
What does Hochschild say?
- Commodification of family life turns something into a product that can be bought and sold
- Alienation due to capitalism
- Emotional labour in the family
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