SOCIOLOGY FAMILY Flashcards
Functionalism
Agree with current society
Society is based on value consensus
Family is the building block to society
Primary socialisation
Being taught norms and values through family
Murdock
Family is a social group characterised by common residence
The nuclear family is universal
Nuclear family
Woman - expressive role
Man - instrumental role
Monogamy
One husband or wife
Modern family
A couple whose relationship is based on marriage, civil partnership or cohabitation with or without children or a lone parent
Polygamy
Marriage to more than one person at the same time
Polygyny
One husband multiple wifes
Polyandry
One wife multiple husbands
Value consensus
Everyone agrees
Murray
Sociologist associated with Torys - new right
Organic analogy
Family is a body
Ideological state apparatus
Institutions that spread bourgeois ideology and ensure that the proletariat is in a state of false class consciousness
False class consciousness
Families teach their children that their position in social class is normal and unchangable
Perverse incentive
Rewarding bad behaviour
Underclass
The class of no working citizens under the working class
Cycle of deprivation
The continuation of poverty
Engles
Inheritance of property - monogamous marriage
Eli zaretsky
The modern nuclear family mainly benefits the ruling class
Ideological functions
Criticises functionalists - sanctions as children prepare you to to be controlled by society
Cult of private life
Men at home are ‘king of the castles’ at the work place they are bottom, so lowers their resentment for work
A unit of consumption
Families teach their kids that happiness lies in consuming goods
Liberal feminism (majority)
‘March of progress’ gender equality at home and wider society through reforming existing laws
Marxist feminism
Unpaid labour of women and expectation of society on the women to look after their husbands