functions of families
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Functions of Families. Why we study family…. To understand how families organize (types of families) Understand family behaviour(s): traditions, beliefs, roles, responsibilities, etc. Motivations: why we carry out these roles. Boys vs. Girls. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Functions of Families
Why we study family…
To understand how families organize (types of families)
Understand family behaviour(s): traditions, beliefs, roles, responsibilities, etc.
Motivations: why we carry out these roles.
Boys vs. Girls
Snips and snails and puppy-dog tails vs. sugar and spice and all things nice.
What message does this send to children?
SEE IF YOU CAN SPOT SOME PROBLEMS WITH THIS INTERPRETATION…
The following is a slide show that was prepared as a way to teach EAL (English as an additional language) students how to identify the English words for family
members…
Family
Mother
Father
Daughter
Son
Brothers
Sisters
Brother and Sister
Mother and
Father
Grand- mother
Grand- father
Grandfather and grandmother
Father and Daughter
Mother and son
Mother and Daughter
Father and Son
Universal Function of the Family
Shirley Zimmerman (U of Minnesota)
6 Key Functions1.Addition of New Members2.Physical Care3.Socialization4.Regulate Behaviour5.Maintain Morale & Motivate6.Economics
1. Addition of new members
BirthsMarriage
WHY? Cycle of dependency: have children to look after you when you are older
2. Physical Care
Society is not always organized to support people as a family can.
3. Socialization
Teach children skills, knowledge, values, attitudes of larger society.
Foster ability of children to appropriately function in society according to their roles in adulthood.
4. Regulating Behaviour
Maintain order in family society as a way to motivate order in the larger society.
5. Maintain Morale & Motivate
Sense of duty / economic necessityAffective nurturance: LOVE…meeting
emotional needs in foundation of our commitment > contributes to the health of society.
6. Economics
Producing & ConsumingEarn income to purchase goods for the family.
NEEDS WANTS
Why do Humans NEED Families?
Helpless at birth1st families were reliant on each other for
survival: made unions based on:1. Reproduction2. Hunting vs. gathering
Agricultural Families
Created a sustainable and abundance food supply.
Formed enduring couples so men (fathers) would help look after the children.
Farms required a lot of labour.Land = wealth and needed to be worked and
protected…resulted in larger families (i.e. more children).
Agricultural Families
MEN: Worked and protected the land.
WOMEN:Domestic chores > rearing children,
household chores.
Urban Industrial Families
Changes in roles: Men, women, and children worked outside the home in factories.
Emergence of the Industrial Nuclear Family: Motherhood became the sacred and primary role of
women. Women nurtured and stayed home. They were
supported by their husbands. Men: money earners for their wives and children. Children: Compulsory education enacted in 1871 in
Ontario. Child labour laws passed in the 1880’s to protect
children.
Modern Nuclear Family
Emerges at the beginning of the 20th century.Delayed marriage until purchase of own
home.Children supported by their parents until the
finished school…parents therefore could not afford large families.
Husband: providerWife: HomemakerChildren: play under supervision of mother &
attend school.
The Modern Consumer Family
Read the article and answer questions 1-3 at the end of page 19.