SOCIOLOGY FAMILY Flashcards

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Functionalism

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Agree with current society
Society is based on value consensus
Family is the building block to society

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Primary socialisation

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Being taught norms and values through family

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Murdock

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Family is a social group characterised by common residence
The nuclear family is universal

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Nuclear family

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Woman - expressive role
Man - instrumental role

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Monogamy

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One husband or wife

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Modern family

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A couple whose relationship is based on marriage, civil partnership or cohabitation with or without children or a lone parent

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Polygamy

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Marriage to more than one person at the same time

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Polygyny

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One husband multiple wifes

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Polyandry

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One wife multiple husbands

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Value consensus

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Everyone agrees

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10
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Murray

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Sociologist associated with Torys - new right

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Organic analogy

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Family is a body

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Ideological state apparatus

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Institutions that spread bourgeois ideology and ensure that the proletariat is in a state of false class consciousness

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False class consciousness

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Families teach their children that their position in social class is normal and unchangable

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Perverse incentive

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Rewarding bad behaviour

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15
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Underclass

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The class of no working citizens under the working class

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Cycle of deprivation

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The continuation of poverty

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17
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Engles

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Inheritance of property - monogamous marriage

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18
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Eli zaretsky

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The modern nuclear family mainly benefits the ruling class

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Ideological functions

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Criticises functionalists - sanctions as children prepare you to to be controlled by society

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Cult of private life

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Men at home are ‘king of the castles’ at the work place they are bottom, so lowers their resentment for work

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A unit of consumption

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Families teach their kids that happiness lies in consuming goods

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22
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Liberal feminism (majority)

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‘March of progress’ gender equality at home and wider society through reforming existing laws

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Marxist feminism

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Unpaid labour of women and expectation of society on the women to look after their husbands

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Radical feminism

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Very critical of the family seeing it as an unequal institution that is patriarchal and men use their financial and physical power to control

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First wave feminism

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Suffragettes

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1918 feminism

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Women over 30 with property to vote

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1928 feminism

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Universal suffrage for women

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Second wave feminism

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Liberation movement

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1960s feminism

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Equal rights for women and in the work place

30
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Socialisation in gender

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Teaching gender norms - socialising kids in gender, canalisation + manipulation

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Unequal labour

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Female triple shift - emotional support, domestic labour and paid work

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Sharpe - like a girl

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Teenage girls saying they care more about their education and career over motherhood and marriage

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British social attitudes survey

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Men now believe they should contribute to childcare

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Separatism

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Women must organise themselves to live independently without men

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Political lesbianism

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Heterosexual relationships are oppressive

36
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Matrilocal household

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All female households

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Capitalist ideology

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The various economic and political ideologies within capitalist society

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Capitalism

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An economic system in which private owners have and control property

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Triple shift

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Paid work
Domestic work
Emotional burden

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Duel burden

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When women work at a paid job and unpaid at home

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Patriarchy

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Hypothitcial social system where men dominate

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Functional fit theory

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A family fits into a particular structure of a given type

42
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Socially mobile workforce

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Able to change your social class and status

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Geographically mobile workforce

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People who move to follow available jobs

44
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Parsons SOAP

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Warm bath theory socialision of adult personalities
Returing home to nice home to reveal work pressure

45
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Ansley - marxist

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Women are takers of shit
They absorb the males frustration

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Benston - marxist

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Women are a reserve army of labour, so are only wanted in the work place when needed

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Greer (2000)

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Argues in favour of all women house holds - radical

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Oakley liberal feminist

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Gender discrimination and how that characterises male/female relationships in a family

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Sommerville social change

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March of progress, both men and women have changed attitudes in families allowing greater equality

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Social policies

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Made by the government in an attempt to improve society

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Functionalist SP

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:) helpful for families, organic analogy part of the bodies system

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Functionalist policies

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+ Child benefits
+ Welfare state
+ Maternity acts
- sex discrimination
- family diversity

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Fletcher neofunctionalist

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If the family breaks down it is no longer preforming a function so divorce is allowed. Empty shell family

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New right SP

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:( The state should play a minimal role. Welfare state promote deviant family types.

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Beveridge report

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1942 welfare state established NHS

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New right policies

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  • divorce laws
  • child benefits
  • housing benefits
  • civil partnerships
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Feminist SP

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:) liberal, relate to equal opportunity in work force and education and improves the household position of women. However, adds to their responsibility at home

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Feminist policies

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+ equal pay act
+ sex discrimination act
+ abortion laws
- historical maternity pay

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Marxist SP

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:( state serves the interests of capitalism. Three aims: aims to disguise capitalism
Maintain workforce
Buys of the workforce

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Marxist Policies

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  • equal pay
  • minimum wage
  • NHS