Eduqas A-Level Sociology Component 1 Section B families and households overview quiz quiz

The sexual and reproductive functions that ensure the continuation of society

Economic production and consumption, with the family acting as a unit of both

Primary socialisation of children and stabilisation of adult personalities

The provision of education and welfare for all members of the household

It is unique to modern industrial Britain and is found in no other type of society anywhere in the world

It exists only to serve the needs of capitalism and benefits the ruling class alone

It is rapidly disappearing and being replaced everywhere by single-person households

It is universal because it performs four functions: sexual, reproductive, economic and educational

To ensure the legitimate inheritance of private property

To meet the emotional and psychological needs of all its members

To improve the education and life chances of working-class children

To support and strengthen the modern capitalist welfare state

Liberal feminism

Marxist feminism

Radical feminism

Difference feminism

The four essential functions performed by the nuclear family in every society

The successive stages of the sociological research process from start through to its final conclusions

Five types of family diversity (organisational, cultural, social class, life-stage, generational)

The different types of formal and informal social control found in society

Two parents who are both working in full-time paid employment outside the home

A particular type of joint decision-making about household spending and finances

Men and women sharing all of the housework and childcare completely equally between themselves

Women doing paid work and also carrying the main responsibility for unpaid domestic work

The triple shift, including emotion work

The functional fit thesis of family change

The concept of age patriarchy

The warm bath theory of personality

Conjugal roles have become steadily more segregated and separate over recent decades

The family is becoming symmetrical, with more equal sharing (the march of progress)

Women have now come to dominate the family and take all the important decisions

Conjugal roles never change at all and remain exactly the same across all societies

Childhood lasted considerably longer than it typically does in society today

Children were far more protected, cherished and indulged than they are in the modern world

The modern idea of childhood did not exist and children were treated as 'little adults'

Childhood was a biologically fixed stage, the same in every society and period

The march of progress view of improving childhood over time

The essential functions performed by the modern nuclear family unit

Domestic violence and abuse occurring between adult partners

Adult control over children's space, time, bodies and resources