The Nature Role Of family In Society

Question 1

What does kinship mean?

Answer 1

Related by birth or blood eg parents grandparents cousins

Question 2

What is a nuclear family?

Answer 2

Parents with dependent children

Question 3

What is a traditional extended family?

Answer 3

Three or more generations of one family living together or close by

Question 4

What is attenuated family

Answer 4

Nuclear family that lives apart from their extended family but keep in contact

Question 5

What is lone parent families?

Answer 5

A single parent and their dependent children

Question 6

Reconstituted families

Answer 6

New step families created when parts of two previous marriages are brought together

Question 7

What does primary socialisation mean?

Answer 7

Process children learn to accept the values and norms of society

Question 8

What does stabilisation of adult personalities mean?

Answer 8

Family stabilises personalities through emotional relationship between parents. Gives support and security needs to cope with wider society?

Question 9

Functionalists perspectives on family have been criticised. Why?

Answer 9

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.

Question 10

How does family play apart in a capitalist society?

Answer 10

A family has a desire to buy goods produced by capitalist industry

Question 11

Why is the Marxist view criticised for being too negative?

Answer 11

1. Marxist view is about family only being a tool of capitalist oppression and never mentions nice things.
2. It only focuses on benefits to economy and the working mans boss it ignores individuals and society
3. Marxists don’t explain why family works in a non capitalist institution

Question 12

What do feminists believe about the family?

Answer 12

1. Family helps keep social order but the believe the current social order make sure men have the power….patriarchal
2. It supports and reproduces inequality and women are oppresses as there socialised to be dependent on men

Question 13

What are the key points to Marxist feminism?

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Radical feminism

Answer 14

See exploitation of women being down to the domination of men in society and men will always oppress women

Question 15

Liberal feminism

Answer 15

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

Question 16

How is the feminist theory criticised

Answer 16

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

Question 17

What do the new right believe about family?

Answer 17

Bedrock of society

Question 18

What type of family do they believe is best?

Answer 18

Traditional nuclear families

Question 19

What do new right believe undermine the family?

Answer 19

Social policies on family, children, divorce and welfare

Question 20

What do they think about lone parents and reconstituted family’s?

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Why has the new right view been criticised?

Answer 21

Blame the the victim for their problems

Question 22

What do postmodernists think about family?

Answer 22

They believe diversity in family structure is a good thing

Question 23

Why do postmodernists think there’s a wider range of living options

Answer 23

Social and cultural change has made living more flexible and positive as individuals can choose to what suits their personal need

Question 24

What are the criticism to postmodernists views on family

Answer 24

Do people really live with lots of different family types through out their life

Question 25

What does pre-industrialisation mean

Answer 25

Society before industrialisation. Largely agricultural everyone works locally

Question 26

Industrial society

Answer 26

Society during and after industrialisation. People moved to cities where there were factories

Question 27

What happened to families in the industrialisation?

Answer 27

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

Question 28

What does ascribed and achieved status mean?

Answer 28

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

Question 29

Parsons said specialised roles for men and women develop within the family how do they do this?

Answer 29

Men are instrumental and are practical and planning leader.
Women are expressive leader
He thinks thinks this is the most effective for society

Question 30

Why are Functionalists criticised on how they think industrialisation has changed families

Answer 30

There criticised for modern nuclear family being superior

Question 31

Single person have increased by?

Answer 31

500000 from 2003-2013

Question 32

Multi family households have increased by

Answer 32

56% from 2004-2014