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Functions of the family according to Murdock

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Sexual
Reproductive
Educational
Economic

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Primary socialisation

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The first level of socialisation done by the family

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Stabilisation of adult personalities (what theory)

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Women in relationships calms and stabilises the man (functionalism)

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Instrumental role

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The role of the man in the family to bring in money

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Expressive role

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The role of women in looking after the emotional well-being of the family

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Warm bath theory

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The theory that women maintain the emotional well-being of the family and are biologically best placed to do it

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Functional fit thesis (who)

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The type of family that is most effective for society (parsons)

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Socially and geographically mobile

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Can move through social classes or around the country for work

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Neo-conventional family

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Dual earners, mum still expressive but economics dictate she must also be instrumental

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What is the importance of monogamy in the functionalist angle

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Inheritance of private property

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Ideological state apparatus

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Teaching children they must accept inequalities

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Unit of consumption

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The nuclear family is the unit in which things are consumed

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Haven= illusion (who + what)

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The idea that the warm bath is an illusion to perpetuate capitalism (zaretsky Marxism)

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Why is the nuclear family essential to capitalism according to marxists

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To reproduce the next batch of workers.

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Reserve army of labour

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Needed to fulfill cheap and temporary jobs, the very bottom of the classes

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Takers of shit (who + what)

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Women are there to soak up men’s frustration (Ansley feminism)

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March of progress (what)

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The idea that things are slowly improving for women through legal changes (liberal feminism)

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Source of oppression (what *2)

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Where oppression comes from e.g. men for feminism, the bourgeoisie for marxism

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Matrilocal families

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Families only of women

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Separatism (feminism)

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Women living separately from men

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Political lesbianism (what)

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Exclusively dating and sleeping with women for political reasons (radical feminism)

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Intersectionalities (difference feminism)

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Class, age, gender, ethnicity

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Support (black feminism)

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Family provides support against racism

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Divorce extended family

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Families extended through divorce, women on women solidarity

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Pure relationships
Relationships that are forced to be perfect because society has so much choice
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Risk society
A society that focuses on what's best for the individual rather than tradition
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Chaos brings choice (what)
By having more choice society becomes more chaotic (postmodernism)
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Family practices
The routines and interactions of a family
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Chosen families
Families that people choose because they feel more kinship than in their own.
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Cereal packet image
Stereotypical ideal family presented in mass media
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Welfare dependency
People who rely on gov't support
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Single parent families
Families with a single parent
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Family diversity
Increasing types of family e.g. more blended, and same sex families
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Nuclear family
Two adults and sometimes children
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Traditional nuclear family
A married mum and dad with children
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Vertical extended family
Three or more generations living in the same household
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Horizontal extended family
Families which have siblings who both have children in the same household
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Beanpole family
Less people in each generation as a result of industrialization
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Re-constituted/ blended/ step family (Patchwerkfamilie)
Families put together from failures of other families
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Boomerang children
Children who leave them return as they can't afford to live alone
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Sandwich genoration
The middle generation who has to work and take care of their children and parents
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Concealed family
A family that is hidden within another e.g. a child bringing a partner and child into their parents home
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Family
A couple who is married, in a civil partnership or co-habiting with or without children or a lone parent with children at the same address
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Household
A group of people who share the same address and facilities
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Family structure
The composition of the family
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LAT
Living apart together( couples who live apart but are in a romantic relationship)
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Pester power
Children making parents more likely to buy things
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Matrilocal families
All female households
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Joint conjugal roles
The couple share housework and do leisure activities apart
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Segregated conjugal roles
Man= breadwinner woman = carer, spend leisure time apart
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Genderquake
The idea that women have more freedom than they did in the recent past
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Symmetrical family
Similar roles but still somewhat different, leisure is more home based
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Dual burden
Housework and paid jobs both being done by wonen
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Triple shift
Women do paid jobs, housework and emotional labour
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Lagged adaptation
Slowly men are taking on more housework but it is delayed from the rate women are picking up work
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Pooling
The idea that both members of a couple can take money in and out as they see fit from a shared bank account
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Allowance
One partner gives another an allowance which they can spend
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Decision making
Women make more trivial decisions e.g. toilet paper or bin bags but the big decisions are either made by men or jointly
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Domestic abuse
When typically men abuse their partners as an act of controlling their behavior
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Secularisation
Society is becoming less religious
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Culture of dependency
Relying on the welfare state
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Pure relationships
Relationships must be perfect

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