The Nature Role Of family In Society Flashcards
What does kinship mean?
Related by birth or blood eg parents grandparents cousins
What is a nuclear family?
Parents with dependent children
What is a traditional extended family?
Three or more generations of one family living together or close by
What is attenuated family
Nuclear family that lives apart from their extended family but keep in contact
What is lone parent families?
A single parent and their dependent children
Reconstituted families
New step families created when parts of two previous marriages are brought together
What does primary socialisation mean?
Process children learn to accept the values and norms of society
What does stabilisation of adult personalities mean?
Family stabilises personalities through emotional relationship between parents. Gives support and security needs to cope with wider society?
Functionalists perspectives on family have been criticised. Why?
They idealise family by leaving out the negatives. Murdock and Parsons don't look at issues of conflict, class or makes their position look weak.
How does family play apart in a capitalist society?
A family has a desire to buy goods produced by capitalist industry
Why is the Marxist view criticised for being too negative?
- Marxist view is about family only being a tool of capitalist oppression and never mentions nice things.
- It only focuses on benefits to economy and the working mans boss it ignores individuals and society
- Marxists don’t explain why family works in a non capitalist institution
What do feminists believe about the family?
- Family helps keep social order but the believe the current social order make sure men have the power….patriarchal
- It supports and reproduces inequality and women are oppresses as there socialised to be dependent on men
What are the key points to Marxist feminism?
Exploitation of women is essential to the success of capitalism and family cares for the next generation of workers which is cost free as women don’t get paid for domestic labour. Women do most of the housework even with a paid job
Radical feminism
See exploitation of women being down to the domination of men in society and men will always oppress women
Liberal feminism
Culture and norms which are reinforced by family and other institutions in society. Family is only sexist as it supports mainstream culture, social change is possible if laws discriminating against women change
How is the feminist theory criticised
Portrays women as too passive and doesn’t explain how women can make changes to improve their situation.
Power in a family can be shared and doesn’t mention gay or lone parent or people from different ethnic backgrounds
What do the new right believe about family?
Bedrock of society
What type of family do they believe is best?
Traditional nuclear families
What do new right believe undermine the family?
Social policies on family, children, divorce and welfare
What do they think about lone parents and reconstituted family’s?
Easier access to divorce and increase in lone and reconstituted family’s led to a breakdown in traditional values which causes social problems such as increase to crime
Why has the new right view been criticised?
Blame the the victim for their problems
What do postmodernists think about family?
They believe diversity in family structure is a good thing
Why do postmodernists think there’s a wider range of living options
Social and cultural change has made living more flexible and positive as individuals can choose to what suits their personal need
What are the criticism to postmodernists views on family
Do people really live with lots of different family types through out their life
What does pre-industrialisation mean
Society before industrialisation. Largely agricultural everyone works locally
Industrial society
Society during and after industrialisation. People moved to cities where there were factories
What happened to families in the industrialisation?
Extended families decreased as people no longer lived and worked together they went to cities to earn a bigger wage which made families more geographical mobile
What does ascribed and achieved status mean?
Ascribed is by birth and what you are born into
Achieved status is what individuals work through out their life to get the best position
Parsons said specialised roles for men and women develop within the family how do they do this?
Men are instrumental and are practical and planning leader.
Women are expressive leader
He thinks thinks this is the most effective for society
Why are Functionalists criticised on how they think industrialisation has changed families
There criticised for modern nuclear family being superior
Single person have increased by?
500000 from 2003-2013
Multi family households have increased by
56% from 2004-2014
