Unit 4 Flashcards
Types of family
- Nuclear
- Exteded
- single
- step/reoncsituted
- civil
- cereal packet
- commune
- cohabitation
- beanpole
- DINK
- child centered
- empty nest
- boomerang
- dual burden
define family D
different families
define kindshiip
ties related by desendant
define divorce
legal ending
What do functionalists think about family
esstential tasks to survive
What do marxists think about family
essential for society to thrive esstential tasks to survive
Sociologists
barret/macintosh - Marxists/functionalists
Believed nuclear family does not work for most people
Types of marriages
Serial
monogamy
polygamy
polygyny
polyandry
define marital breakdown
cannot be restored
define empty shell
without love
define secularisation
decline in religious praies
Types of conjugal roles
- Joint (shared)
- traditional (shared but according to gender)
- Segregated (not shared)
Family worker types
Symmetrial and dual worker
Sociologist willmott says symmetrial is more common in middle class
define domestic abuse
any kind of abuse within a family
Functionalist views
- Pre industrial - extended
- post industrial - nuclear
(decline in extended families)
