Families And Households Keywords Flashcards
Functions of the family according to Murdock
Sexual
Reproductive
Educational
Economic
Primary socialisation
The first level of socialisation done by the family
Stabilisation of adult personalities (what theory)
Women in relationships calms and stabilises the man (functionalism)
Instrumental role
The role of the man in the family to bring in money
Expressive role
The role of women in looking after the emotional well-being of the family
Warm bath theory
The theory that women maintain the emotional well-being of the family and are biologically best placed to do it
Functional fit thesis (who)
The type of family that is most effective for society (parsons)
Socially and geographically mobile
Can move through social classes or around the country for work
Neo-conventional family
Dual earners, mum still expressive but economics dictate she must also be instrumental
What is the importance of monogamy in the functionalist angle
Inheritance of private property
Ideological state apparatus
Teaching children they must accept inequalities
Unit of consumption
The nuclear family is the unit in which things are consumed
Haven= illusion (who + what)
The idea that the warm bath is an illusion to perpetuate capitalism (zaretsky Marxism)
Why is the nuclear family essential to capitalism according to marxists
To reproduce the next batch of workers.
Reserve army of labour
Needed to fulfill cheap and temporary jobs, the very bottom of the classes
Takers of shit (who + what)
Women are there to soak up men’s frustration (Ansley feminism)
March of progress (what)
The idea that things are slowly improving for women through legal changes (liberal feminism)
Source of oppression (what *2)
Where oppression comes from e.g. men for feminism, the bourgeoisie for marxism
Matrilocal families
Families only of women
Separatism (feminism)
Women living separately from men
Political lesbianism (what)
Exclusively dating and sleeping with women for political reasons (radical feminism)
Intersectionalities (difference feminism)
Class, age, gender, ethnicity
Support (black feminism)
Family provides support against racism
Divorce extended family
Families extended through divorce, women on women solidarity