Structure Of The Family Short Mark Questions Flashcards
2 marks
What is meant by conservative ideology
A belief in traditional ideas and institutions
Don’t like change
2 marks
What is meant by sexual division of labour
Roles divided between genders at home and work
2 marks
What is meant by the family as a unit of consumption
Buy items from shops instead of making them
2 marks
What is meant by social solidarity
The feeling of belonging
2 marks
What is meant by instrumental leader
One of Parsons roles
Male is the the one who works- breadwinner
2 marks
What is meant by expressive leader
Parsons suggested role
The wife job was to do the housework and to look after children
2 marks
What is meant by extended kinship family
Relationships between family members beyond the nuclear family
2 marks
What is meant by Symmetrical family
A family where both genders do the same jobs
2 marks
What is meant by ideological apparatus
Promotes values and maintains the reproduction of class inequalities Transmitted by education and mass media
2 marks
What is meant by isolated nuclear family
When families became geographical mobile and moved away from extended kinship
2 marks
What is meant by structural differentiation
The change from extended to nuclear which made the family unit effective and streamlined
2 marks
What is meant by ascribed roles
Jobs that are passed down through generations of the family
2 marks
What is meant by geographical mobility
Ability to move around quickly for jobs
Led to the break up of the extended family
2 marks
What is meant by socially constructed roles
Roles made through society and can only be changed through laws
Equal Pay Act
4 marks
Suggest reasons why the traditional nuclear family contributes towards social solidarity
Families contribution to the economy
Social order maintained
4 marks
Suggest reasons why the modern nuclear family became geographically mobile
More jobs available as the economy became dependent on mobility
Achievement became bigger than asciption
4 marks
Suggest reasons why the extended family persisted after industrialisation
Mutual economic support system
Families felt they had a emotional obligation
4 marks
Suggest reasons why the family moved from being extended to symmetrical
Geographical mobility
Consumerism
Feminisation of the economy
4 marks
Suggest reasons why the family meets the needs of an industrial society
Geographical mobility
Become consumers as wages are earnt
Women meet emotional support for family
6 marks
Identify consequences of industrialisation on the family
Roles changed -expressive and instrumental leader
Functions changed to stabilisation and primary socialisation
Structure changed -extended to nuclear
Family became isolated from extended kin
6 marks
Identify ways the nuclear family is seen as an ideological state apparatus
Consumerism Pursuing false needs Family maintains and reproduces class inequalities
6 marks
Identify features of the traditional nuclear family
Married heterosexual couple
2 or 3 children
Live togther in the same household
6 marks
Identify ways that the nuclear family exploits women
Unpaid domestic labour
Only can get cheap part time jobs
Dependent on men for income
Men have power and control over women
6 marks
Identify how industrialisation changed roles in the family
Specialised agencies took over most functions of the family
Expressive leader
Instrumental leader
Extended kinship networks dissolved
6 marks
Identify ways that industrialisation changed the structure of the family
Geographical mobility lead to nuclear family
Roles - instrumental and expressive leader
Families got smaller as extended kinship was not needed
