Sociology: Unit One: Families and Households.

• Related by Kinship (blood, marriage, or adoption).
• Very Important social institution.
• Found, in some form, in all societies.
• Key role in the socialisation of children.

What did he say?

• Families live together.
• Work together/pool resources.
• Reproduction.
• Includes male and female (sexual relationship-approved by wider society)
• Have at least one child.

Criticisms of Murdock: Outdated!!

Nulcear Family

• Parents and children live together in one family.
• Sometimes know as 2 generation family.

Extended Family 

• All kin including and beyond the Nuclear family.
• 2 main types: Classic and Modified, extended Families.
• These are either horizonatally or vertically extended.

Classic Extended

• Extended family living together or close by, members see one another regularly
• Horizontally Connected- Aunts and Uncles etc.
• Vertically Connected- Grandparents and Grandchildren.

Modified Extended

• Nuclear family, live geographically far apart, remain in reg. contact (visting, phone, email and letters etc.)
• Probably the most common family type in britian today.

Vertically Extended

• 3 generations of the same family