Key definitions of the Families and Household topic - such as norm, value as well as the different types of family that can be found within society.
Additionally, provides a walkthrough/ bullet point list of Functionalist, Marxist and Feminist views on society with key studies that can be impleme...
Norm: A social rule that you’re taught in your family → to meet the values of society.
Value: A rule that society follows/ a quality that society has → a large scale belief about
how society should be.
Patriarchy: The idea that men are in charge of society:
Alienation: The process through which working class people don’t benefit from their
work.
TYPES OF FAMILY:
Household: A household is a group of people who live together, they may or may not be
related through blood or marriage.
Family: A family is a form of household where all the people who live together are
related through either kinship ties or marriage.
The Nuclear Family (the cereal packet family): Mum, Dad → have to be married ← , with
their kids.
The Extended Family: The extended family is one which contains a relative beyond the
nuclear family → for example grandparents who live with the nuclear family.
The Reconstituted Family: A reconstituted family is one which is often referred to as a
‘step family’ → still consists of parents and children although one parent may be the
social parent - meaning they are not the biological parent.
The Lone Parent Family: Consists of children and a single parent.
Neo-Local Family: A family that doesn’t live near any extended family.
How might lone parent families form?
- A parent might die
- A parent might run away
- There may have only been one parent in the first place
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