Nuclear family Flashcards
1
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Nuclear family
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Two parents living with their biological/adopted children-fits with Murdock’s definition
Often portrayed as ideal family type
2
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Kinship ties
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These are relationships based in marriage/blood ties, found within nuclear family
3
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Leach
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Nuclear family is “cereal packet” norm-one used in advertisements, patriarchal roles
4
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Gittins
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Image of “ideal family” being the nuclear family acts as powerful ideology, in terms of what is normal
Makes other family types seem less vulnerable
5
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Different family types-Beanpole family
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Refers to family type whereby each generation only has few members
Brennan-result of increased life expectancy and smaller family sizes, less focus on extended families
