CHAPTER 5 - The Family

Gidden's view

Where adult members take responsibility for childcare

Kin relationship

biology, such as mother and child,affinity, such as two adults living together, law, such as marriage

Murdock(1949) definition of a family suggests that it is characterized by

common residence, economic co-operation and reproduction, adults of both sexes, one or more children, own or adopted

two reasons for increase in the number of reconstituted families in modern industrial societies

due to death or divorce,reassembly as a new family

Giddens(2006)

families are different from other social groups.

Kinship Network

family relationships

Modified extended family

form of extended family, family members maintain contact but rarely live in close proximity

Willmont(1988) 3 variations on the modified extended family

two or three nuclear families in separate households living close together, dispersed extended types involve require less contact,attenuated young couples before they have children separating from families

Fit thesis

The argument that industrialization and urbanisation lead to changes in family and household

The difference between a dispersed- extended family and a locally extended family

A locally family that consist of two or three nuclear families living together in close proximity.The dispersed extended family don't keep in frequent contact with each other.

Household

Residential unit consisting of unrelated individuals.

Gordon(1972)

The norm is modified extended family. Wider family members keep in touch both physically through visits, telephone,email