The Family
- Created by: elladitch
- Created on: 08-05-18 10:28
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- The Family
- Purposes / Functions
- Regulates sex
- Gives people an appropriate place
- Reproduction
- Provides the support needed
- Physical Care
- Food / warmth etc
- Economic Support
- Wealth can be shared. Children require more.
- Emotional Support
- Members provide love and advice
- A Place in Society
- Social status and roles
- Sense of belonging
- Social status and roles
- Socialisation and Control
- Teaches norms and values
- Canalisation, manipulatio, sanctioning etc
- Canalisation= Channel the child's interests using toys. usually gender identity.
- Manipulation= Deter or encourage behaviour based on gender.
- Regulates sex
- Stucture / Types
- Nuclear
- Married couple and children
- Extended
- Includes aunts, uncles, granparents and cousins
- Reconstituted
- Step families
- Same-Sex
- Where the couple/ parents are in a homosexual relationship
- Boomerang
- Children moved out from home then returned (eg after university)
- Beanpole
- One child in each generation. increasingly more common
- Lone Parent
- Single parent (widowed or separated) Usually the wife takes the children
- Nuclear
- Changes
- Feminism
- Encouraged women to reject tradition and focus on careers
- Gay Rights Movement
- 1967: Homo-sexuality legalised
- 2002: Gay people allowed to adopt
- 2005: Civil Partnership Legalised
- 2007: Illegal to discriminate against gay people
- 2013: Gy Marriage legalised by the Conservative Party
- 2007: Illegal to discriminate against gay people
- 2005: Civil Partnership Legalised
- 2002: Gay people allowed to adopt
- 1967: Homo-sexuality legalised
- Divorce
- Divorse Reform Act (1969) makes it easier
- Secularisation
- People less worried about conforming to Christian beliefs
- Cohabitation
- More common to not marry
- Multi-culturalism
- Family norms have been introduced
- Serial Monogamy
- People are less likely to remain in a relationship if they are unhappy
- Feminism
- How is it effected by class?
- Middle and Upper Class
- Delay marriage and children for life experiences eg travel
- Less likely to have unplanned pregancies
- More likely to have kids when older
- More likely to live away from parents
- The Working Class
- Live nearer to parents / vextended family
- Get married and have kids earlier
- Form lone-parent and reconstituted families
- Middle and Upper Class
- Purposes / Functions
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