Family Flashcards
Define family
Linked by kin relations, marriage, lines of descent
What is marriage?
Socially acknowledged/approved sexual union between 2 adult individuals
Describe the development of family life through the eras
1500-1600: nuclear, procreation, little emotional attachment
1700-1800: nuclear more separate, distinct from ties other kin/community, importance in love, parental responsibility, authoritarian power fathers
1800-present: emotional bonds,, domestic privacy, preoccupied child rearing, increase in affective individualism, basis for consumption, home work separate
What are the theories of family?
Parsons - link between nuclear and needs industrial society, breadwinner prevents competition, keeps solidarity, need resolve conflict public compared to family. Socialisation & resources, modernist, idealised.
Foucalt - discourses promote behaviour which regulate actions
What is marx’s view on family?
Link capitalism to wa people taught to think/behave to ensure capitalism increases by exploiting labourers, encourages more hours and impacts family life quality
What are the stages of the family life cycle?
Formation, start child bearing; end child bearing, empty nest, family dissolution
What are the dynamics of mate selection?
Based on love and attraction
What are the norms of mate selection?
Exogamy and endogamy
What have been the changes in family?
Extended, free choice of spouse, women rights, kin marriage, increased sexual freedom, more children rights, less fertility, more skilled women, more investment/ expense in children, more control with number of kids, ease of divorce
What are the different types of families?
Blended, single parent, childless, single persons, gay lesbian couples, married with kids, married without kids, married adult children
Define kinship
Ties connections between individuals
