The Family & It’s functions: Flashcards
WHAT ARE THE 6 FUNCTIONS OF FAMILY?
1) Physical care
2) Reproduction/procreation
3) Socialization
4) Social Control
5) Economic - Production of Goods and Services: everyone had a role in the economy
6) Affective nurturance (LOVE)
What is PHYSICAL CARE?
Families will provide physical care for all members: adults, children, and otherwise dependent individuals
- This includes health care, appropriate nutrition, shelter, clothing
what is REPRODUCTION/ PROCREATION?
To maintain a stable population a society needs to continue to generate members
(bearing of children, expanding family)
what is SOCIALIZATION?
Almost all our behaviour is learned (from familt: we spend the most time with them)
Process where children learn to befome human and adopt appropirate behaviours
what is SOCIAL CONTROL?
To maintain order in society, it is expected that families will maintain order of their members.
(to follow laws, to pay taxes)
what is ECONOMIC?
production, consumption, and distribution of goods and services
family is the basic economic unit in practically all societies
what is AFFECTIVE NURTURANCE (love)
families maintain members’ morale and encourage them to participate in society
- they provide affection and meet our emotional needs
NUCLEAR FAMILIES
a family with a husband, wife, and one or more biological or adopted children
single parent families
when one or more children live in a household headed by one parent
these families result from divorce, desertion for death of a spouse
blended families
contains a couple and one or more children from a previous relationship
if not biologically related to a child in the family, the parent is called a stepparent
foster families
children who cannot live with their parents may live in a foster family
extended families
a family that expands beyond the nuclear family, consisting of parents like father, mother, and their children, aunts, uncles, grandparents, cousins all live in the same household
childfree families
including 2 spouses without children, 3 years to be considered legal
lone parent families
a single mother or father, and one or more biological or adopted children
these families result from divorce, desertion for death of a spouse
MARCO? AND WHAT THEORIES ARE IN IT
MACRO: study the interactions between society and institutions such as the law, family, policies
SF, CONFLICT
