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