Sociology - Families & Households

What is a family?

• A group of people related by kinship ties. Eg, Blood, marriage or adoption.
• One person living alone or a group of people who live at the same address and share living arrangements.

What is a household?

• One person living alone or a group of people who live at the same address and share living arrangements.
• A group of people related by kinship ties. Eg, Blood, marriage or adoption.

Functionalists believe that the nuclear family is a beneficial institution, true or false?

• True
• False

The family is an agency of secondary socialisation, true or false?

• False
• True

Marxists see the family as serving the needs of a capitalist society, true or false?

• True
• False

Feminists believe the family is matriarchal, true or false?

• True
• False

In the last 50 years, the marriage rate in England and Wales has increased by two thirds, true or false?

• False
• True

According to multiple surveys, men do the same or more housework than women, true or false?

• True
• False

The triple burden is a Functionalist idea, true or false?

• False
• True

Childhood is socially constructed, true or false?

• True
• False