Functionalism

Question 1

Nuclear Family

Answer 1

Two parents (man and woman) and their children

Question 2

Primary socialisation

Answer 2

The nuclear family educate the next generations on societies values and beliefs to help them successfully integrate into society

Question 3

Symmetrical family

Answer 3

Young and Willmott - March of progress view
a family where the roles and responsibilities both outside and inside the home are shared equally. This means that both partners have paid jobs outside the home and they participate in domestic labour

Question 4

Murdock’s four functions of the family

Answer 4

Satisfaction of the sex drive
Primary socialisation
meeting its members economic needs
Reproduction of the next generation

Question 5

social and geographical mobility

Answer 5

pre industrialisation families used to consist of immediate and extended family, when the Industrial Revolution began families split and became nuclear families to be able to move closer to the factories. Social mobility- people can achieve a new status through hard work instead of being born into a status

Question 6

March of progress

Answer 6

Young and Willmott- families are becoming more equal

Question 7

Biological/ Sexual devision of labour

Answer 7

Women and men have segregated roles within the house, men are the breadwinners and women are the housewives
Parsons says that segregation is based on biological differences