The Family,structure Chap 1 key words Flashcards
Ascripton
Jobs are similar throughout the family and knowledge is passed down
Achievement
Jobs are achieved though education
Conservative
A belief in traditional ideas and institutions, suspicious of radical change
Domestic labour
House work and child care
Expressive leader
Parsons’ term for the female job roles of housewife/mother
Extended kinship networks
Relationships between family members beyond the nuclear family
Geographical mobility
Ability to move around the country quickly
Household
A social group sharing a common residence
Ideological apparatus
Marxists
Any institution that is involved in transmitting ideas of ruling class
Education and mass media
Ideology
Set of powerful ideas
Industrialisation
18-19th century
Agricultural production- industrial manufacturing
Urbanisation took place
Instrumental leader
Parsons term for the male breadwinner
Kinship
Related to each other by blood or marriage
Maternal instinct
A ‘natural’ instinct to desire motherhood and to want to care for children
Mutual economic support system
A system in which family members work to support each other
Nuclear family
Family group consisting of two generations
Sexual division of labour
The division of both paid work and domestic labour into men’s jobs and women’s jobs
Social solidarity
The feeling of belonging
Symmetrical family
A nuclear family in which both spouses perform equally important roles
