Function Of The Family Chap 2 key words Flashcards
Consensus
Common agreement on shared values
Ascribed status
Inherited status from what parents have achieved
Consumption
The ways in which individuals use goods and services
Buying from shops
Delinquency
Youth crime
Dysfunctional
Having negative consequences
Relationships - can be bad and affect the family
Feminization of the economy
Economic trend in 1990s whereby the majority of newly available jobs were aimed at young women
Functional
Beneficial, fulfilling a purpose
Functional prerequisites
The basic needs for society
Needs for social order
Multicultural
Having more than one culture
Patriarchal ideology
Male dominated ideas
Sexual division of labour
Distribution of childcare and housework tasks depending on gender
Social control
Process of persuading, encouraging and enforcing conformity
Subcultural
Subcribbing to cultural values and norms that may be different from the mainstream