1.2 Extended Families

Question 1

The ideology of the nuclear family suggests what about the extended family?

Answer 1

No longer important

Question 2

Who pioneered research into the extended family?

Answer 2

Young and willmott

Question 3

In the 1950s young and willmott studied family life where?

Answer 3

Bethnal Green

Question 4

(50s) Young and willmott found a strong bond between who?

Answer 4

Mothers and married daughters had a strong bond

Question 5

(50s) young and willmott - mothers and married daughters often lived where?

Answer 5

Close together

Question 6

(50s) young and willmott - the families had close knit what?

Answer 6

Extended kinship networks

Question 7

(70s) by the 1970s young and willmott found what type of family to be dominant?

Answer 7

Nuclear

Question 8

(70s) young and willmott- nuclear family was based on a strong what?

Answer 8

Conjugal bond between husband and wife

Question 9

(70s) young and willmott described this as a symmetrical family in which husband and wife both do what?

Answer 9

Paid work
Housework
Childcare

Question 10

(70s) young and willmott argue the symmetrical family arose as rising wages and benefits meant what?

Answer 10

Nuclear families were less dependent on wider family

Question 11

(70s) young and Willkie argue the symmetrical family arose as increased what occurred?

Answer 11

Geographical mobility - affecting kinship networks

Question 12

(70s) young and willmott say the symmetrical family also arose as what improved?

Answer 12

Entertainment and facilities in the home

Question 13

While the extended family has declined it has not entirely what?

Answer 13

Disappeared

Question 14

Wilmott - argues the extended family continues to exist but as what?

Answer 14

A modified extended family

Question 15

Wilmott - what is a modified extended family?

Answer 15

Relatives are geographically separated but maintain contact through visits and phone calls
They come together for family events and in times of need

Question 16

Chamberlain - what type of families did she study in 1999?

Answer 16

Caribbean families in Britain

Question 17

Chamberlain - despite being geographically dispersed the families continued to do what?

Answer 17

Provide support

Question 18

Chamberlain described them as what?

Answer 18

Multiple nuclear families

Question 19

Chamberlain- close and frequent contact between who?

Answer 19

Siblings, uncles, aunts and cousins often making a big contribution to child rearing

Question 20

Chamberlain - the extended family survives because it does what?

Answer 20

Performs important functions for its members

Question 21

Charles - contact remains high between who?

Answer 21

Mothers and daughters

Question 22

Charles - there is decline in support between who?

Answer 22

Brothers and sisters

Question 23

Charles - a family with support from parents but not siblings is referred to as what?

Answer 23

Beanpole family

Question 24

Charles - those ceasing to keep in touch may not be defined as what?

Answer 24

Family

Question 25

Charles - who might become family?

Answer 25

Friends is they are seen often and help each other

Question 26

Charles - what constitutes as family may now be what?

Answer 26

A choice

Question 27

Extended families are important in providing what?

Answer 27

Practical and emotional support when called upon

Question 28

But extended families no longer involve members doing what?

Answer 28

Working and living together