Theories of the Family Flashcards
Nuclear family
A married couple and their children who live together.
Reconstituted family
A family in which one or both partners have been previously married, or living as a cohabiting couple, and bring with them children of a previous relationship. Also known as stepfamily.
Extended family
Family beyond the traditional nuclear family, incorporating aunts, uncles and grandparents, living in the same household or close by.
One parent family / lone parent family
A family consisting of one parent and their child / children.
Same sex family
A couple of the same sex living with their child / children.
Household
A person or group of people that live at the same address and share at least one meal a day or facilities such as a living room.
Primary socialisation
The teaching of norms, values, skills and beliefs to children within the family.
Geographical mobility
The movement of people from one location to another.
Social mobility
The movement of groups or individuals up or down the social hierarchy / social class system.
Primitive communism
An early type of society in which the means of production were communally owned
Monogamous
Marriage to one person at a time
Inheritance
The passing of property or wealth down the family line
Alienation
When workers lack power and control at work and feel detached from the work that they do, or the items them produce.
False class consciousness
When the working class do not realise that they are being exploited and cannot recognise their own class interests
Ruling class ideology
The ideas and beliefs of the ruling class that help to maintain capitalism
Ideological state apparatus
Institutions which spread the ruling class ideology and justify the power of the ruling class.
Commodity
A product that can be bought and sold
Pester power
The idea that children continually ask their parents to buy products that they see advertised or that their peers have.
Patriarchy
The systems of male power and authority that operate to disadvantage women in society.
Domestic labour
Work performed in the home e.g. childcare, cooking, cleaning
Gender socialisation
The process by which children learn the norms and behaviours associated with their gender.
Sex discrimination
The unequal treatment of an individual because of their sex/gender.
Personal life
The most meaningful parts of people’s lives which involve relationships with other people they are close to.
Chosen families
Families that consist of the people that people feel closest to, regardless of whether they are family members.
Fictive kin
Close friends who are treated as relatives e.g. calling a family friend “auntie”
