The Family,structure Chap 1 key words

Question 0

Ascripton

Answer 0

Jobs are similar throughout the family and knowledge is passed down

Question 1

Achievement

Answer 1

Jobs are achieved though education

Question 2

Conservative

Answer 2

A belief in traditional ideas and institutions, suspicious of radical change

Question 3

Domestic labour

Answer 3

House work and child care

Question 4

Expressive leader

Answer 4

Parsons’ term for the female job roles of housewife/mother

Question 5

Extended kinship networks

Answer 5

Relationships between family members beyond the nuclear family

Question 6

Geographical mobility

Answer 6

Ability to move around the country quickly

Question 7

Household

Answer 7

A social group sharing a common residence

Question 8

Ideological apparatus

Answer 8

Marxists
Any institution that is involved in transmitting ideas of ruling class
Education and mass media

Question 9

Ideology

Answer 9

Set of powerful ideas

Question 10

Industrialisation

Answer 10

18-19th century
Agricultural production- industrial manufacturing
Urbanisation took place

Question 11

Instrumental leader

Answer 11

Parsons term for the male breadwinner

Question 12

Kinship

Answer 12

Related to each other by blood or marriage

Question 13

Maternal instinct

Answer 13

A ‘natural’ instinct to desire motherhood and to want to care for children

Question 14

Mutual economic support system

Answer 14

A system in which family members work to support each other

Question 15

Nuclear family

Answer 15

Family group consisting of two generations

Question 16

Sexual division of labour

Answer 16

The division of both paid work and domestic labour into men’s jobs and women’s jobs

Question 17

Social solidarity

Answer 17

The feeling of belonging

Question 18

Symmetrical family

Answer 18

A nuclear family in which both spouses perform equally important roles