8. Family

Question 0

Families are not simply groups sharing a ____ ____, although living together might be a significant way that pattems of obligation are expressed.

Answer 0

common residence

Question 1

Families are not simply ____ units, although biological connections might be deemed important within particular cultures and societies.

Answer 1

biological

Question 2

Traditionally sociologists were particularly interested in families because as an ____ the family was considered as a basic unit of social organisation.

Answer 2

institution

Question 3

Contemporary approaches to family life are less likely to emphasise the family as an object and more likely to critique the ____ ____ of the family, and the ways in which these ideologies are institutionalised in our everyday social practices.

Answer 3

ideological constructs

Question 4

Family refers to a group of people who are related to each other by blood ties, marriage or adoption. Families usually form _____ units and are responsible for the upbringing of children.

Answer 4

economic

Question 5

The family is at the same time a primary place of _____. It is living in and as famlies that we are socialised into the central belief systems and practices of our given society.

Answer 5

socialisation

Question 6

____ refers to links between individuals on the basis of blood ties, marriage or adoption. Kin relations extend beyond the institutions of the family and marriage.

Answer 6

Kinship

Question 7

‘____’ is mostly used when people are talking about those with whom they have close kinship ties and with whom they tend to share their everyday lives.

Answer 7

Family

Question 8

We can take the ‘____’ as referring to individuais who live together and share daily responsibilities, usually under the same roof.

Answer 8

household

Question 9

The sociology of the family tends to focus on the _____ in its analyses, rather than on kinship.

Answer 9

household-family

Question 10

Five well-known family ____ are the nuclear family; the extended family; the reconstituted family; the single parent family, and the same-sex family.

Answer 10

forms

Question 11

The _____ family is defined as husband-wife couple and dependent children.

Answer 11

nuclear

Question 12

_____ family is defined as the nuclear family plus others that may include either spouses parents, siblings and their children.

Answer 12

Extended

Question 13

_____ families are combinations of households made up of divorced or widowed parents and dependants.

Answer 13

Reconstituted

Question 14

____ families are made up of gay couples and their dependants.

Answer 14

Same-sex

Question 15

The Act (cypf, 1989) defines what it meant by ____ ____; people who the child had a biological or legal relationship, and or people who the child has a significant psychological relationship.

Answer 15

family group

Question 16

Many sociologists do not talk so much about ‘the family’ anymore, and instead use terms like ‘family life’, ‘family experiences’ and ‘family practices’ to describe what we might do or ____ in ‘families’.

Answer 16

experience

Question 17

Sociologists also use terms like ____ and ____ to describe cultural ideals, dominant ideologies and/or discourses that construct various meanings around family life.

Answer 17

Familism and familialism

Question 18

The ____ ____ of the family is that although the family is the site of intimacy in modern societies it is also the site of exploitation. Intimacy and exploitation are two very different faces of our experience of family life.

Answer 18

double life

Question 19

The idea that the family is a haven from a heartless world is turned on its head by experiences within families like ____ ____, ____, and ____.

Answer 19

sexual abuse, neglect, and violence