Sociology - The Family

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1. What is the Extended Family?

  • A married mother and father living with their children
  • Consists of relatives beyond the nuclear family, for example grandparents, living in the same household as the family
  • A step family, consisting of two different families joining to make one family
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2. What are the Functionalist Sociologists' 4 functions of the family?

  • Secondary socialisation, conformity, economic provision and discipline
  • Emotional gratification, reproduction, primary socialisation and economic provision
  • Reproduction, safety, discipline and socialisation

3. What do New Right sociologists believe about the family?

  • That wives deserve more rights in marriage as traditionally the family is patriarchal
  • That children brought up in a traditional family are better educationally, physically, psychologically and socially
  • That the family reproduces social inequality and economic imbalance

4. Who are the Bourgeoisie?

  • The middle class
  • The ruling class
  • The poorer/working class in our society

5. What is Polygymy?

  • When a man has more than one wife
  • When a person marries then divorces, marries then divorces, etc.
  • When a person has more than one husband or wife

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