- Social structure, shapes individual behaviour through socialisation
- Agreement around a set of shared norms and values, enables cooperation towards shared goals
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EXTENDED FAMILY
- Incorportates aunts, uncles, grandparents
- Tend to have lived in the same house
- Modern ext. families live in a collection of houses close by
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IDEOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS
- The ways that ideas spread through institutions work to preserve the power of dominant groups
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MACRO, TOP DOWN APPROACH
- Looks at things as a whole
- Looks at things in terms of how and what they contribute to society
- Looks at the whole picture
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NUCLEAR FAMILY
- Man, woman, their dependent children
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PRIMARY SOCIALISATION
- First stages of learning
- Learning norms and values
- Learning basic skills and norms (language, basic manners)
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ORGANIC ANALOGY
- The analogy that looks at the importance of functions that society performs for society in the same way that organs perform functions for the body.
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GEOGRAPHICALLY MOBILE WORKFORCE
- Workforce that is able to move within the industrialised society for jobs
- Nuclear family is an example of a GMW
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SOCIALLY MOBILE WORKFORCE
- People with the right skills are able to achieve higher status and move up
- Modern society requires skilled, technically competent workers
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EXCHANGE THEORY
- The idea that individuals break off or mantain ties because of the costs or benefits involved
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MULTI FUNCTIONAL UNIT
- Extended family was one
- Both a unit of consumption and production
- More self sufficient
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
- Incorportates aunts, uncles, grandparents
- Tend to have lived in the same house
- Modern ext. families live in a collection of houses close by
Back
EXTENDED FAMILY
Card 3
Front
- The ways that ideas spread through institutions work to preserve the power of dominant groups
Back
Card 4
Front
- Looks at things as a whole
- Looks at things in terms of how and what they contribute to society
- Looks at the whole picture
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