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25 Cards in this Set
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Reasons for Increased Divorse rates |
-Rising expectations of Marriage -Changes in the position of Women -Changes in Law -Declining stigma and changing attitudes -Secularisation |
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Sociologists on Divorse Rates |
-New Right: It undermines the Nuclear Family creating welfare dependent single mothers -Functionalists: People just have more options -Feminists: It means women can escape the patriarchy
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Pros of Extended Family |
-Provides emotional, financial and child support -More income -Cheaper than care homes -Easier to care for elderly |
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Cons of Extended Family |
-Small living environments, spread illness faster -High household cost -Reinforces traditional values -Less privacy and individualism |
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Charles on Extended Family |
Traditional 3 generation family all but non existent Higher wages mean less financial support needed Geographical mobility has increased as has communication |
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Lone parent and Step Families |
1 in 4 children are Lone Parent 10% of families are reconstituted |
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New Right on Family Diversity |
-Takes away from NF -Lone mothers can't discipline children and leave boys without role models and are a burden on the welfare state -Cohabitation and divorce lead to unstable and irresponsible adults -Taxation and benefits act as a perverse incentive' -Discourages men for working to support their families |
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Chester on Family Diversity |
-Statistics and trends are over exaggerated -People still will love in a NF at some point -Neo conventional family |
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Rappoports 5 types of Family Diversity |
-Life Stage -Generational -Organisational -Social Class -Cultural |
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Postmodernism Beck, Stacy and Weeks |
-More choice and change in people attitudes -'Pick and Mix' society 'Pluralistic' -Social Constructs -Beck: Risk Society leads to instability but there's now a negotiated family -Stacy: Divorce Extended Family through women -Weeks: Despite diversity people still favour the NF |
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Social Policies |
-China: One Child Policy -Germany: Aryan Race -Council houses for single mothers -Abortion |
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Sociologists on Social Policy |
-Functionalists: Good because it supports the family -New Right: Bad because family can support itself -Marxists: Serve capitalism eg. Pensions -Feminists: It reinforces the patriarchy -Drew: Familistic vs Individualistic Gender Regimes |
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Sociologists on Childhood |
-Marxists: Important for capitalism -Functionalists: Key life stage for socialisation -Conflict View: Adults vs Children due to control over Space, Time, Resources and Bodies |
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Childhood Disappearing |
-Postman: Commuting adult crimes and having similar clothing and rights and information hierarchy gone due to risen of TV -Palmer: Toxic Childhood due to technology -Compulsory education till 18 -Just different cultures |
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Reasons for changing position of Children |
-Child labour laws -Compulsory education 1850 -Children's Rights and Protection laws 1989 |
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Cross Cultural Differences |
-Holmes: Samoan Tribes don't take 'too young' as an excuse -Malinowski: Children in 3rd world's sexually active -Aries: 10th Century children treated as adults -In France Children can drink wine |
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Marxists Functions of the Family |
-Inheritance of property- Engels: Used to be 'a promiscuous horde' this evolved in what we have now -Ideological Functions -Unit of Consumption |
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Willmott and Young Families |
-Preindustrial: Production together -Early Industrial: Industrial revolution, men work -Privatised Nuclear: Less segregated, consumption |
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Reasons for changes |
-Schor and Silver: Commercialisation of housework -Rising independence of women -Changing attitudes -Legal equality |
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March of Progress |
-Family has gotten better for everyone -Increase in women's rights but still pay gap -Anne Oakley: Men only 'help' with desirable work -Sex typing and gender scripts -Pahl: Couples pool money, generally younger couples -Morris: Men avoid feminine housework even when women work |
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Domestic Violence |
-Physical, Psychological, Sexual or financial violence within an intimate relationship and forms a pattern of coersive behaviour -Underreported -Yearnshire: 35 accounts before reported -Cheal: Police are ill equipped to deal with it |
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Feminists on DV |
-Radical: Dobash and Dobash blame the patriarchy -Liberal: // But feel its gotten better -Marxists: Fran Ainsley see women as the 'takers of ****' |
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Murdock's Universal Family |
-Pretty much NF -Found in 250 societies he studied -Functions: Stabilise Sex Drive Reproduction Socialisation Economic needs |
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Domestic Division of Labour |
-Bott: 2 types of conjugal roles segregated and joint Typical for men to take instrumental role where women have expressive although sometimes take of double of triple shifts |
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Parsons Functional Fit |
-Families will adapt to for into the societies they're in -2 main functions: primary socialisation Stabilisation of human personalities |
