Download Family - Introduction Sociology - Lecture Slides and more Slides Introduction to Sociology in PDF only on Docsity! Chapter 19 BELONGING: FAMILIES docsity.com Conceptions of Family • Blood Kin • Fictive Kin • Household • Nuclear Family (restricted definition) • Domestic Labour docsity.com Conceptions of Family • Blood Kin • Fictive Kin • Household – An individual or group of people, sharing the same accommodation for a period of time. – Can describe all kinds of diverse arrangements including flatmates, same sex partners – with or without children, three generations of parents and their children, and their children. • Nuclear Family (restricted definition) • Domestic Labour docsity.com Conceptions of Family • Blood Kin • Fictive Kin • Household • Nuclear Family (restricted definition) – a husband, wife and dependent children living in the same household. • Domestic Labour docsity.com Conceptions of Family • Blood Kin • Fictive Kin • Household • Nuclear Family (restricted definition) • Domestic Labour – The work involved in running a household, such as cleaning, shopping, and child care; undertaken largely by women and without remuneration. docsity.com The Nuclear Family and Functionalism →Functional roles within the nuclear family: • Instrumental – male, father, economic • Affective/Emotions – female, mother, domestic →Gendered division of labour – the division of tasks between men and women: usually explained by functionalists as biologically grounded. →Affective Individualism – the formation of marriage ties on the basis of personal selection, guided by sexual attraction or romantic love. This idea is a peculiarly western one; and also, historically speaking, quite recent as well. docsity.com Alternative Forms of Family Life • separate households • extended family groupings • temporary lone parenting • satellite or multi-local families docsity.com Other Sociological Ways of Understanding Family Life… Marxist Approaches • Valuing family life distracts attention from exploitation at work. • Unpaid domestic labour of wives and mothers keeps costs of servicing workers down, so wages can be lower. • Child rearing = free reproduction of new generations of commodity producers. • Women constitute a ‘reserve army of labour’ • Because a wife is deemed to be economically dependent on her husband she can be paid less when she does enter the waged labour force docsity.com Diverse Family Types • Non-marital heterosexual partnerships • De facto marriages • Same-sex partnerships • Single-parent families • Blended families • Extended families • Elective families/families of choice docsity.com Children • Falling fertility rates • Effective contraception • Choice not to procreate • Fertility treatment • In vitro fertilization treatment • Multiple ‘parents’ docsity.com Films • Once Were Warriors 1994 (Lee Tamahori) • L’Enfer 2005 (Denis Tanovic) docsity.com
