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Families And Households Keywords Flashcards

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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

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Relationships that are forced to be perfect because society has so much choice

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Risk society

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A society that focuses on what’s best for the individual rather than tradition

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Chaos brings choice (what)

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By having more choice society becomes more chaotic (postmodernism)

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Family practices

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The routines and interactions of a family

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Chosen families

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Families that people choose because they feel more kinship than in their own.

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Cereal packet image

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Stereotypical ideal family presented in mass media

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Welfare dependency

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People who rely on gov’t support

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Single parent families

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Families with a single parent

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Family diversity

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Increasing types of family e.g. more blended, and same sex families

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Nuclear family

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Two adults and sometimes children

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Traditional nuclear family

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A married mum and dad with children

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Vertical extended family

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Three or more generations living in the same household

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Horizontal extended family

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Families which have siblings who both have children in the same household

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Beanpole family

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Less people in each generation as a result of industrialization

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Re-constituted/ blended/ step family (Patchwerkfamilie)

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Families put together from failures of other families

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Boomerang children

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Children who leave them return as they can’t afford to live alone

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Sandwich genoration

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The middle generation who has to work and take care of their children and parents

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Concealed family

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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

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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

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A group of people who share the same address and facilities

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Family structure

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The composition of the family

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LAT

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Living apart together( couples who live apart but are in a romantic relationship)

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Pester power

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Children making parents more likely to buy things

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Matrilocal families

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All female households

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Joint conjugal roles

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The couple share housework and do leisure activities apart

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Segregated conjugal roles

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Man= breadwinner woman = carer, spend leisure time apart

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Genderquake

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The idea that women have more freedom than they did in the recent past

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Symmetrical family

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Similar roles but still somewhat different, leisure is more home based

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Dual burden

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Housework and paid jobs both being done by wonen

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Triple shift

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Women do paid jobs, housework and emotional labour

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Lagged adaptation

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Slowly men are taking on more housework but it is delayed from the rate women are picking up work

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Pooling

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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

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One partner gives another an allowance which they can spend

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Decision making

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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

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When typically men abuse their partners as an act of controlling their behavior

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Secularisation

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Society is becoming less religious

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Culture of dependency

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Relying on the welfare state

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Pure relationships

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Relationships must be perfect

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