C1 SB - Families & Relationships - Topic 4, Family diversity

Question 1

Social class diversity

Answer 1

Crompton (2005) - class reproduction - children follow in their parents footsteps 
Bourdieu (1973) - cultural capital - forms of cultural knowledge passed down to children.

Question 2

Ethnic diversity

Answer 2

South asian families (Ballard 1982, 1990)(Berthoud 2001) - Traditional gender roles, large multi generational household, arranged marriage - Now change, as more freedom of choice and more based on nuclear family rather than extended family.

Question 3

Sexual diversity

Answer 3

Giddens (1992) - confluent love - transformation of intimacy