1. Before we start: A quick check…
Are you wearing your lanyards?
Mobile phones away please

2. 5 min recap key words What is Family? What is Family ideology?
What is polygamy?
What is Family ideology?
What is Family?
What is a collectivist culture?
What is kinship?
What is an individualist culture?
5 min recap key words
Write a definition and give an example of the three below

3. Answers
1) What is Family? - A group of people related by blood, marriage,
choice or adoption.
2)What is Family ideology? - how people feel about the idea of family
3) What is kinship? - Sense of duty and feelings to family members.
4) What is a collectivist culture? – people believe community life is more important than individual wants and needs. An example would be Izzat in Asian communities and Kibbutz communities (Israel)
5) What is an individualist culture? – people expect to put their own needs before those of others around them – e.g. British culture
6) What is polygamy? – marriage to more than one partner at a time – e.g. still practiced by a small minority in Mormon faith and Jacob Zuma, South African president has 4 wives. Also common in other African cultures.
7) What is monogamy? – marriage to only one partner at a time – in British culture it is against the law to marry more than one person at a time.

4. GCSE Sociology: Extended writing
Family What is a nuclear family?
What am I going to learn? The most common kind of family is the nuclear family; many people also believe it is the best kind of family
Objectives of the lesson are:
To define the term nuclear family and to name one political party that supports this family structure
To be able to recall points about the Functionalist and Feminist perspective of the family.
To apply knowledge to an exam questions

5. What do all these images have in common?
Question…

6. What do these families have in common?

7. Family Types
Nuclear Family
Extended family

8. Defining the Nuclear Family
A family consisting of a man, a women (heterosexual couple) and their children

9. Nuclear Family (cereal packet family)
Nuclear family are also know as cereal packed family by the media.
The media have traditionally portrayed the traditional family as mum and dad having breakfast with kids before dad heads off the work (bread winner) and mother stays as home cooking ,cleaning and caring for children (3C’s).

10. In some parts of Britain, extended families are common.
They consist of wider family who have a close or daily contact with the nuclear family.
Grandparents, brothers and sisters may live close and share family life.
Extended Families

11. Functionalist Theory: Nuclear Family
In the 1940s, George Murdock said that all societies have nuclear families.
In 1950s Talcott Parsons said that a nuclear family is essential for the proper socialisation of children and of parents.
Functionalist Theory: Nuclear Family

12. Who are the Conservatives?
A bit of politics!
Who are the Conservatives?
A political party that has traditional values

13. Conservatives generally support what they call ‘family values’: They believe that… - A nuclear family is best for everyone. - Other forms of family are not as good. - A working father should support his children economically. - The mother should look after and care for children/old people and those who are ill.  
Conservative’s view on the nuclear family

14. David Cameron – Conservative Prime Minister in 2010 said he wanted to encourage people to marry because it was good for the children. He viewed family breakdown as a problem for society. He believes in the nuclear family.

15. What is a feminist?
A bit more theory – useful for contrasting in the exam!
People who think that men and women should be equal

16. The functionalist theory has been questioned by Feminists.
Feminist sociologists say that the basic family is the mother and child. They say that other types of family are perfectly good if children are loved and cared for.
Feminist Theory

17. Have things changed since the 1950s
Have things changed since the 1950s? We will be looking at this further in the next lesson…
Alternative families
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18. Check your understanding and Exam Practice

19. Family structure in modern Britain
Discuss whether nuclear families are the best kind of families for children to live in (20)
*what could you discuss?
Hint – contrast conservative/functionalist vs feminist view point.
Family structure in modern Britain

20. Using the internet conduct some research to find out about ‘The Nayar People’ and ‘The Oneida Community’.
Examine the features consider how they differ from a typical British nuclear family.
Homework