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Structure Of The Family Short Mark Questions Flashcards

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What is meant by conservative ideology

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A belief in traditional ideas and institutions

Don’t like change

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What is meant by sexual division of labour

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Roles divided between genders at home and work

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What is meant by the family as a unit of consumption

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Buy items from shops instead of making them

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What is meant by social solidarity

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The feeling of belonging

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What is meant by instrumental leader

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One of Parsons roles

Male is the the one who works- breadwinner

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What is meant by expressive leader

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Parsons suggested role

The wife job was to do the housework and to look after children

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What is meant by extended kinship family

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Relationships between family members beyond the nuclear family

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What is meant by Symmetrical family

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A family where both genders do the same jobs

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What is meant by ideological apparatus

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Promotes values and maintains the reproduction of class inequalities
Transmitted by education and mass media
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What is meant by isolated nuclear family

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When families became geographical mobile and moved away from extended kinship

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What is meant by structural differentiation

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The change from extended to nuclear which made the family unit effective and streamlined

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What is meant by ascribed roles

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Jobs that are passed down through generations of the family

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What is meant by geographical mobility

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Ability to move around quickly for jobs

Led to the break up of the extended family

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What is meant by socially constructed roles

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Roles made through society and can only be changed through laws
Equal Pay Act

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Suggest reasons why the traditional nuclear family contributes towards social solidarity

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Families contribution to the economy

Social order maintained

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Suggest reasons why the modern nuclear family became geographically mobile

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More jobs available as the economy became dependent on mobility
Achievement became bigger than asciption

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Suggest reasons why the extended family persisted after industrialisation

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Mutual economic support system

Families felt they had a emotional obligation

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Suggest reasons why the family moved from being extended to symmetrical

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Geographical mobility
Consumerism
Feminisation of the economy

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Suggest reasons why the family meets the needs of an industrial society

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Geographical mobility
Become consumers as wages are earnt
Women meet emotional support for family

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Identify consequences of industrialisation on the family

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Roles changed -expressive and instrumental leader
Functions changed to stabilisation and primary socialisation
Structure changed -extended to nuclear
Family became isolated from extended kin

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Identify ways the nuclear family is seen as an ideological state apparatus

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Consumerism 
Pursuing false needs
Family maintains and reproduces class inequalities
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Identify features of the traditional nuclear family

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Married heterosexual couple
2 or 3 children
Live togther in the same household

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Identify ways that the nuclear family exploits women

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Unpaid domestic labour
Only can get cheap part time jobs
Dependent on men for income
Men have power and control over women

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Identify how industrialisation changed roles in the family

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Specialised agencies took over most functions of the family
Expressive leader
Instrumental leader
Extended kinship networks dissolved

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Identify ways that industrialisation changed the structure of the family

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Geographical mobility lead to nuclear family
Roles - instrumental and expressive leader
Families got smaller as extended kinship was not needed

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