FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLDS MWH

Question 1

What is a dual burden?

Answer 1

When a woman does paid and unpaid work. (E.g domestic labour).

Question 2

What is an expressive role?

Answer 2

Played out by the mother.
‘Stays at home’.
Looks after children and cleans.
Emotional support g role.

Question 3

What is a nuclear family?

Answer 3

Mum, dad and children living together.

Question 4

What is the instrumental role?

Answer 4

Usually played out by the father.
Takes the breadwinner role.
Provides the family with food, money etc.

Question 5

What is an extended family?

Answer 5

3 or more generations living together.

Question 6

What is a household?

Answer 6

A group of people who live together.
They may not have be family.

Question 7

What is a family?

Answer 7

A type of household where the people living together are related.

Question 8

What is kinship?

Answer 8

Being related by birth or blood.

Question 9

What is a reconstituted family?

Answer 9

When new stepfamilies created when two parts of previous families are brought together.

Question 10

What does Murdock argue (functionalist).

Answer 10

Family is useful to society.
It is inevitable and universal.

Question 11

What does Parsons argue?

Answer 11

Families have 2 basic functions.
1. Primary socialisation.
2. Adult personalities.

Question 12

What are the proletariat?

Answer 12

Working class in a capitalist society.
Only possession is their labour force.

Question 13

What is the pre-industrial society?

Answer 13

Society before industrialisation.
Agricultural work, farms, villages and markets.

Question 14

What is the industrial society?

Answer 14

Society during and after industrialisation.
Factories, and production of goods in cities.

Question 15

What is an ascribed status?

Answer 15

The status you’re born with.

Question 16

What is geographical mobility?

Answer 16

Physically moving around
(E.g towns, countries etc).

Question 17

What is the patriarchy?

Answer 17

Society where men are dominant.

Question 18

What is primary socialisation?

Answer 18

Where children learn and accept the values and norms of society.

Question 19

What is cohabitation?

Answer 19

Where a couple are in a sexual relationship and living together it not married.

Question 20

What is secondary socialisation?

Answer 20

Socialised into the culture which takes place in school and the wider society.

Question 21

What is a value consensus?

Answer 21

Where society is based on a shared set of basic values and norms.

Question 22

What is divorce rate?

Answer 22

The number of people per 1000 married who get divorced.

Question 23

What is a neo-conventional family?

Answer 23

Both parents are earning money not just the male.

Question 24

What is a triple shift?

Answer 24

Responsible for 3 jobs:
(Domestic labour, paid labour and emotional work).

Question 25

What are segregated conjugal roles?

Answer 25

Married couples have separate roles, and separate leisure activities.

Question 26

What is the gender division of labour?

Answer 26

Roles in family are split according to your gender. Men= paid work. Women= housework.

Question 27

What is a child-centred society?

Answer 27

Where society does more for children. Have fewer children but have more stuff.

Question 28

What is infant mortality rate?

Answer 28

Number of infant deaths for every 1000 live births.

Question 29

What does Marxism think about the nuclear family?

Answer 29

It is beneficial to capitalism and the ruling class.

Question 30

What is an aging population?

Answer 30

Population where the average age is getting higher.

Question 31

What is Parsons warm bath theory?

Answer 31

The nuclear family is like a warm bath. It ‘soaks up’ the stress and stains that life can bring.

Question 32

Weaknesses of Parsons warm bath theory:

Answer 32

Ignores the dark side of family. Ignores increasing family diversity. (Same-sex couples and single parents).