Sociology Families
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- Sociology Unit One
- family definition
- the family is a group of people linked by kinship ties, the adult members assume responsibility for the child
- nuclear is two hetero adults with children
- extended families are those with grandparents, aunts and uncles.
- vertical = 3 or more generations
- horizontal = same generation e.g aunts and uncles
- bean pole family is where families are smaller each generation
- sandwich generation is those who look after young and elder generation
- boomerang kids are those who leave then return.
- household is people who live in same place e.g uni dorm
- cohabitation is an unmarried couple living together
- reconstituted is a family unit whose parents remarried
- murdock suggested nuclear family is the most important, but is it in decline?
- polyandry and communes exist as a family unit
- functionalists family
- believe it is the cornerstone of society.
- murdock's 4 functions are sexual stabilisation, reproduction,socialisation/education and economic support
- ignores culture of family.
- patriarchal
- parson believed the household is a comfort from the world and that a function is stabilisation of adult roles aka woman cooks, man works
- ignores conflict in the family
- old and american
- downplays conflict, outdated views, ignores female exploitation and ignores family alternates
- New Right family
- new right are mainly politicians and right wing people.
- believe nuclear has emotional support, socialisation of culture and establishes respect for conformity
- women have an expressive role and men have a instrumental role.
- non traditional are dysfunctional
- believe feminism has distracted women from their natural job as mothers, allowed contraceptive pills
- the underclass are those who live on benefits
- basically hates minorities
- Charles Murray made the 'underclass'
- people have disabilities and cant work
- sexist, patriarchal and stereotypical
- nuclear family is only 5%
- marxist family
- Believe family is an agent of social control
- Engels believed inheritance of property, that family used to not be monogamous
- there is still monogamy in hunting groups
- Althusser believed that ideological state apparatus was to make people subsceptible to this state
- zaretsky said the family is emotional security from oppressive system of capitalism
- ignores abuse in family etc
- Marcuse believed false needs in consumer goods, family helps reproduce false class conscious
- marxists ignore benefits of family
- the constant emphasis on capitalism ignores other inequalities like women's inequality - feminism
- Feminist family
- it is a patriarchal institution that oppresses women.
- equal pay act and liberal feminism is what they deem will change rights for women
- women are beneficial as they do unpaid work - marxist feminists
- Benston says women doing this work makes men productive workers
- Ansley said men take out their frustrations of capitalism on women
- Radicals reject family and the institution
- Delphi and Leonard say women are wasting their lives
- Kate millet argues men can dominate women this way through society
- Greer says ideology suggests to women that being a wife and mother is EVERYTHING.
- portrays women as passive and not willing to put up a fight
- dont look at the power in LGBTQ relationships and what they have yet are against hetero
- black feminists say it isnt diverse or inclusive to them nor other ethnicities
- family definition
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