Sociology of the Family - 20 Questions - UNFINISHED

Question 1

Name Parson’s 4 functions of the family

Answer 1

1. Sexual
2. Reproduction
3. Economic Cooperation
4. Socialisation

Question 2

Name 5 family or household types

Answer 2

5 from;
Nuclear family, extended family, lone-parent family, blended family, beanpole family, same-sex couple, empty-nest family

Question 3

Name the Rapoport’s types of family diversity

Answer 3

1) Organisational. This refers to the way a family might organise itself in terms of the roles people perform

2) Cultural. Families differ in terms of their beliefs and values.

3) Class. Much writing about the family assumes that family life as experienced in a middle-class family is the same for other social classes, but this is not the case.

4) Life course. Rapoport and Rapoport point out that we do not live in the same family structure, family set-up or type of household for the whole of our lives.

5) Cohort. There is also change over time and what is the norm, in terms of family life, for one generation, is not for the next.

Question 4

Describe an arranged marriage

Answer 4

A type of marriage in which the spouses are chosen for each other by other individuals, usually their parents