Key Words
all individuals to whom a person is related by blood, marriage or adoption.
What is extended family?
This function of a family covers the creation of offspring to carry on the family line.
What is procreation?
Feminists believe that families mirror this unjust system.
What is the patriarchy?
What are wealth and prestige?
consist of two generations of family members living in the same household.
What are Nuclear families?
a household in which two adults who marry or cohabit and are biological or adoptive parents, with a child from a previous relationship.
What is stepfamily?
In order to learn how to live properly in society, your family must fulfill this family function.
What is Socialization?
This type of family contribution is usually fulfilled by women who are married, but have no children.
What are household chores?
Conflict theory enforces the idea that people have children in order to create more of this group.
What are workers?
A group of people who share a common residence.
What is a household?
unpaid housework and childcare.
What is Domestic Labor?
Ensure that your family is well-off and has ample means to provide falls under this funciton.
What is economic security?
While married men can focus on this aspect of their life, married women are often forced to sacrifice it.
What are careers?
Symbolic Interactionists emphasize social interaction as this type of process in which families continually modify their behavior throughout their lives?
What is a dynamic process?
Vertically Extended groups consist of parents, children, and this group.
What are grandparents?
A newly married couples set up their own residence.
What is neolocal residence patterns?
Ensuring that future generations have a potential heritage, or a "fall-back," if their desired careers don't work is this function.
What is social placement?
Women play this when they are both paid workers and unpaid housewives.
What is a dual-role?
Symbolic Interactionists tend to ignore this group while conflict theorists highly emphasize their plights.
What are families in poverty?
This family function is part of functionalism, but isn't considered a mainstream family function.
What is emotional security?
The oldest females control cultural, political and economic resources and have power over males
What is matriarchal family system?
This critique of functionalism believes that many functions or burdens of the family can be placed instead on this.
What is the state/government?
Feminist theory pushes the notion that women this role as unpaid servants forced upon them by family.
What is a service role?
Rather than personal choice, conflict theorists believe that families are created and perpetuated by this.
What are institutional constraints?
Horizontally Extended families consist of siblings of this group.
What are your parents?