Main Part Of Sociology Flashcards
Murdock?
Studied 250 different cultures found a form of nuclear family
What are the 4 functions of family did Murdock find?
Reproductive
Sexual
Economic
Educational
What are the 2 roles of family according to parson?
Primary socialisation
Give emotional support
Family before industrialisation?
Extended
Owned means of production
Worked from home
Family’s after industrialisation?
Nuclear
Specialised institutions supported family like NHS
Geographical mobile
Marxist view on family?
Serves need of capitalism
Promotes values
Marcuse
Marxist-family pursue false needs
Benston
Marxist feminists-women do unpaid domestic labour keeps men in workforce and women act as “reserve army of labour”
What influences state policy?
New right
What views do new right have on family?
Traditional
Disagree with contraception, abortion, divorce, homosexuality and lone parents undermine family
Who does tax and welfare benefit
Heterosexual married couples
Who is Child benefits given to?
Mother which reinforces women should stay at home and look after the kids
Birth rate has
Decreased
Why has birth rate decreased
- Decline in infant mortality rate
2. Change in women’s position
Why has fertility rate decreased?
- Reliable birth control
2. Women delay kids
What effects has the increase in age population had?
- Life expectancy
- Increase in one person household
Ross et al kids spend more time with grandparents increase in beanpole family’s
What do feminists and Postmodernists think about family diversity?
It’s good as it gives more personal choice and rejects patriarchy
What do Functionalists and new right think about family diversity
Bad it creates a crisis as increase in anti social behaviour such as crime
Wilkinsons view on decline in marriage
It’s a result of gender quake
Smiths view on decline in marriage
Feminist it creates unrealistic expectations of monogamy
Morgan’s view on decline in marriage
Unique attachment is being lost
Is the decline in marriage bad?
- People aren’t rejecting it there delaying it
2. British social attitudes marriage is still seen as a life goal
How many marriages are re marriages
2/5
New rights view on cohabitation
Less stable then marriage
Morgan cohabiting couples are less happy Murphy kids are likely to get lower grades
Why has there been an increase in divorce rates
More available so less people are committed
How many lone parent families are there?
1.7 million
New rights view on lone parent families?
Children lack discipline
Feminists perspective on new rights view on lone parent
Criticise new right view of lone parenting and familial ideology leads the o negative labelling
What’s Willmott and youngs view on power and control in family
Segregated division of labour is breaking down
Feminists view on power and control in family
Dryden- out of 17 married couples all women had major responsibility for housework
Postmodernists and feminists view on family diversity
It’s a good thing as it creates greater personal choice and reject patriarch
What’s the functionalist and new rights view on family diversity
It’s a bad thing it creates a crisis as it lead to an increase in antisocial behaviour
What are the three main causes of domestic violence
- husband’s expectations of womens domestic work
- possessive and jealous
- allocation of money
Pahl
62% of women that experience violence put up with it for three or more years
Dobash and Dobash three reasons why men have the most power
1.History men always have the top positions
Patriarchal society
2.Maynard social workers used to support men’s reasons for violence
3.Early socialisation girlsand more controlled and supervise 12 boys are in courage to be independent
Give three reasons of why the position of children have changed
- Introduction of compulsory education
- The growth of kids rights
- Declined in family size and infant mortality rate encouraged parents to make more of a financial and emotional investments
What is the march of progress
Children are more valued has better care more protected better education and health more rights and the family and become more child-centred functionalist
How do you Marxists and feminists disagree with the functionalist view of March of progress
It doesn’t focus on inequality between children such as class gender and background. kids are also still brought up with a negative background sometimes
Conventional approach
Functionalists and new right
Kids of the nerve bullets need to be protected
They need Heterosexual parents
Marxist feminism
Exploitation of women is essential for the success of capitalism family cares for the next generation of workers they are basically no cost
Radical feminist’s
Exploitation of women in the household is down to the domination of men in society men will always oppress women
Liberal feminist
Cook tuna and some values are reinforced by family this is only sexist as it supports mainstream culture
