Families Flashcards
What is social control
A way of ensuring people conform to societies norms
What is the nuclear family ?
A farther who works a stay at home mum, two dependant children .
What is a reconstituted family ?
A family where one person was previously married.
Describe a same sex family
Two parents of the same sex
What did rapoport and rapoport say.
That the nuclear family is no longer the norm due to the rising amount of other family types.
Name the 5 types of diversity amongst families
Organisational Social class Cultural Generation Life stages
What is primary socialisation
The teaching of norms and values early on in a child’s life by their family
What change in the law made divorce easier and what year was it introduced?
1969
The divorce reform act creates new grounds for divorce
Irretrievable breakdown.
What is social stigma?
The social perception and attitude attached to a certain action
Why has there been a change in the number of children couples are having
The rising cost of childcare means that people can’t afford to have children
How much does it cost to raise a child up until 18?
£227,000
What did Ellis Cashmere say in what year?
1985
Working class women are more likely to live on benefits
Who said that the rise in female lone parents will cause a rise in reconstituted families?
Chester
In 2008 what did Charles say?
Extended families are all but extinct except in Bangladeshi families
What percentage of the population are lone parents?
22%
Murray 1984 said what?
That the welfare state encourages single parents. Without a male role model children will turn to crime.
What do functionalists believe about family and power?
That women perform different tasks because they are biologically suited and it makes the family more efficient.
Marxists believe what about power within families ?
Women and men have different roles as a result of capitalism. The capitalist society needs to portray women as naturally caring in order to maintain a work force.
What is the feminist perspective on power within families .
Men keep women trapped in the home. And maintains patriarchy in society
What did Wilkinson and Pickett show?
There were greater number of working class people who experience violence.
How many people suffer from domestic violence?
2 million in 2013
What did Both find in 1957 ?
Two types of conjugal roles.
Segregated and joint
What is the march of progress ?
Willmott and Young
Joint conjugal roles and move towards the symmetrical family.
How does Oakley challenge the view of the symmetrical family.
That the symmetrical family does not account for men choosing the jobs they do and they cherry pick the tasks they do.
