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31 Cards in this Set
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Divorce Reform Act
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1969 (1971 was passed) |
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The Legal Aid Act
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1949
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The Civil Partnerships Act
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2004
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The Same-Sex Marriage Act
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2014
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Stigma
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The loss of shame through society to be an individual.
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Secularisation
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The loss of religion to impact our choices made in society.
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Fletcher (1966)
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The expectation of marriage is major as a cause of divorce rates.
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Giddens
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Romantic or 'Confluent' Love
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Functionalists idea of Marriage |
Optimistic- Life should be happy, dislike divorce, but dislike unhappy marriages also.
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Feminists idea of Marriage
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Bad- Oppresses women in the family. |
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Women's Careers
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Risen from 27% in 1959 to 70% in 2005. Achieve better jobs. Not financially dependant on husbands. |
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Allan and Crow (2001)
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Marriage less dependent on economic system, no longer a unit of PRODUCTION- spouses economically interdependent.
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Feminists and Changes in position of Women |
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Hochschild (1997) |
Home compares favourably with work. Work=Value and respect. Home= Men's resistance to help. |
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Bernard (1976)
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Radical feminist, women dissatisfied with patriarchal marriage. |
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New Right and High Divorce Rates
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Undesirable-undermines nuclear family. |
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Feminists and High Divorce Rates
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Postmodernists and High Divorce Rates
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Give individuals freedom and a cause of family diversity.
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Functionalists and High Divorce rates
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Doesn't prove marriage is a social institution under threat- high expectations of marriage. Remarriage shows commitment. |
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Marriage Rates since 1920's
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Fewer people marry.
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Leading to serial monogamy is...
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More re-marriages. |
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Age of first marriage is...
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Later. |
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Location of Marriage is...
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Less likely to be in a church.
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Attitudes to marriage now
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Less pressure, less secularisation, decline in stigma, social acceptance. |
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Women and Marriage |
Attitudes have changed. More career prospects. |
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Cohabitation |
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Increase in Cohabitation...
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Decline in stigma, younger generation, increased opportunities for women, secularisation. |
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Marriage and Cohabitation... |
Marriage= Decrease. Cohabitation= Increase. |
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Chester (1985)
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Cohabitation is part of the marriage process. |
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Same Sex Relationships
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2004 Civil Partnerships Acts, increased social acceptance and changes in social policy. |
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