Socoiology- Families & Households Topic 1
Define 'family'
Group of people who are related (by ties, blood, marriage)
Define 'household'
A household is either one person living alone or a group of people who live together. Not all households are family.
Define 'civil partnership'
Legal recognisition of same sex partners.
Define 'polygamy'
Marriage to more than one partner at the same time
Define 'Polygyny'
One husband and 2 or more wives
Define 'Polyandry"
One wife and 2 or more husbands.
Define 'Beanpole' family
A multi-generation extended family, long and thin.
Define 'nuclear families'
2 generations: parents and children living in the same household
Define 'extended family'
All kin including and beyond the nucleur family.
Define Reconstituted, Stepfamily, Blended family
One or both partners previously married, with children of previous relationships.
Define 'serial monogamy'
A series of monogamous marriages
Funcationalist perspective on education
Funcationalists see the family, funcationlists see the family as a vital 'organ' in maintaning the 'body' of society.
Murdocks (1949) 4 main funcatyions of the family.
1. Sexual
2. Reproduction
3. Sociolization
4. Economic
Define the expressive role
Nurturing, caring, emotional role. Typically the mothers role.
Define 'instrumental' role
Provider/breadwinner role in the family. Typically the father.
Define Patriarchy'
Male dominance with men having power and authority.
Define 'meritocracy'
A society where occupational status mainly achieved on the basis of talent.
Define 'Domestic labour'
Unpaid housework e.g. cooking, cleaning
New Right perspective on education
See the nucleur family as performing important and beneficial funcations in securing sociol stability.
Marxist perspective on education
Marxists see the family as contributing to a captialist society.
Define 'ideological state apparatuses'
Spread the ideology and justify the power of the dominant sociol class.
Feminist perspectives on the family.
Emphasize the harmful effects of family life upon women, family continuing to oppress women.
Postmodernism in the family.
Believe contemporary society is rapidly changing. Individuals are no longer confined by sociol sociol structures and are rejecting ideas about the traditional nucleaur family.
Define 'sociol policy'
Sociol policies are developed to help make changes in society.