Family And Households Sociologists

Question 1

Murdock

Answer 1

Studied 250 societies and all had families which fitted four functions,

Sexual, reproductive, economic and emotional.

Question 2

Parsons (relationships)

Answer 2

Instrumental and expressive roles

Question 3

Parsons (family)

Answer 3

Parsons concluded that the family had two functions

1) primary socialisation
2) stabilisation of adult personalities

He also concluded the second is done through the warm bath theory.

Functional fit thesis.

Question 4

Chester

Answer 4

Neo-conventional family

Question 5

Engels

Answer 5

Importance of monogamy to inheritance of private property

Question 6

Zaretsky

Answer 6

Haven

Family acts as a unit of consumption but once acted as a unit of production

Question 7

Althusser

Answer 7

Ideological state apparatus
Socialisation into the illusion of inequality

Question 8

Ansley

Answer 8

Takers of shit

Question 9

Greer

Answer 9

Matrilocal families

Question 10

The rapoports

Answer 10

Organisational diversity
Cultural diversity
Social class diversity
Life stage diversity
Generational diversity

Question 11

Cheal

Answer 11

Pick and mix identities
Chaos brings choice

Question 12

Giddens

Answer 12

Pure relationships
Lack of secure relationships

Question 13

Beck

Answer 13

Risk society
More risk less stable

Question 14

Morgan

Answer 14

Family practices make family

Question 15

Stacey

Answer 15

Divorce extended families

Question 16

Weeks

Answer 16

Family diversity
Sexual diversity

Question 17

Murray

Answer 17

Traditional nuclear family is best

Question 18

Wilson

Answer 18

Secularisation

Question 19

Wilkinson

Answer 19

Genderquake

Question 20

Hakin

Answer 20

Women choose domestic roles because it fits their lifestyle choices better

Question 21

Bott

Answer 21

Segregated and joint conjugal roles

Question 22

Young and Willmott

Answer 22

Symmetrical family

Question 23

Oakley

Answer 23

Symmetrical family is an exaggeration

Question 24

Man-yee kan

Answer 24

Better educated women do less housework (every extra £10, 000 to annual salary there is two hours less housework per week)

Question 25

Gershung

Answer 25

Wives who work do less housework
Don’t work = 83% of housework
Part-time work= 82% of housework
Full-time work 73% of housework

Question 26

Ferri and smith

Answer 26

Dual burdan

Question 27

Duncombe and Marsden

Answer 27

Emotional work-> triple shift

Question 28

Pahl and Vogler

Answer 28

Pooling
Allowance system

Question 29

Hardill

Answer 29

Decision making

Question 30

Dobash and Dobash

Answer 30

Power and control
Domestic violence