Families and households Flashcards
Young and Willmott (couples)
March of progress view -They said that couples were becoming more equal. Men were taking more housework jobs or looking after children as well as women. - Development of the symmetrical family.
Dobash and Dobash (couples)
Found that domestic violence was a reaction to husbands having their authority challenged - evidence of patriarchy in society. Marriage legitimated violence (radical view).
Parsons (couples)
Men perform an instrumental role - breadwinner and economic and decision making functions.
Women perform an expressive role - housework, emotion work and care for children and husbands.
Bott (couples)
There are two types of marriages - segregated conjugal roles and joint conjugal roles.
Sullivan (couples)
Women do a bit more housework than men today, but thins are much more doing more than ever before - more equal roles.
Postman (childhood)
Childhood is disappearing - worry over sexualization of children.
Aries (childhood)
In the past, children were mini adults, but now we are in a cult of childhood. Childhood is a separate stage.
Palmer (childhood)
Childhood is now toxic - concerns over negative influences in technology, obesity, abuse etc.
Jenks (Childhood)
Childhood is a social construct and not a biologically defined stage.
Gittens (childhood)
Age patriarchy
Smart (childhood)
New sociological approach focuses on the view of the child and their experience. E.g. children’s role in divorce
Greer (theories)
Radical feminist - argues a matrilocal household - having heterosexual relationships is ‘sleeping with the enemy’
Ansley (theories)
women are the “takers of sh*t” in the family
Murdock (theories)
Four functions of the family - stabilization of sex drive, economic , socialization, reproduction.
Parsons (theories)
Extended family moved to nuclear family to nuclear family as there was need for a geographically mobile workforce.
Zaretsky (theories)
Family provides an ideological function - a safe haven outside of the exploitation of capitalism.
Althussers (theories)
Family is part of the ideological state apparatus
Engles (theories)
Family reproduces inequality by ensuring that property and wealth stays in the hands of the rich (aka, inheritance).
Smart (theories)
Personal life perspective - family is more than just blood ties - includes pets, fictive kin, friends, dead relatives, donor families.
Murray (policy)
Critical of welfare policy - creates a dependency culture of reliance on housing and welfare benefit and encourages non-traditional family structures.
Donzelot (policy)
Increase in policy on the family is a form of power and control over families. Certain classes are targeted more than others. (Uses Fouclaut’s ideas about control and surveillance)
Chester (diversity)
Some family diversity but most still live in the nuclear family or aspire to live that way. Therefore, people live in the neo-conventional family.
Stacey (diversity)
The greater diversity in family has benefitted women - They can escape patriarchal oppression and shape their families around their needs.
Rappaports (diversity)
Five types of family diversity - organizational, cultural, social class, life stage, generational.
Mckeown (demography)
Improved nutrition played a significant part in the reduction of the death rate.
Tranter (demography)
Fall of deaths is mainly due to the fall in number of infectious diseases.
Hirsch (demography)
The traditional age pyramid is disappearing . Now more equal sized block - increasing the dependency ratio due to ageing population.
Brass and Kabir (demography)
They argue that the trend to smaller families began not in rural areas, but urban areas where the IMR remained higher for longer, so it is not connected to the fall in birth rates
Weeks (family patterns)
Chosen families - in same sex relationships roles are created around kinship and friendship - they are as stable as traditional families.
Giddens (family patterns)
Pure relationship - relationships are based on love and last only as long as couples are happy.
Beck (family patterns)
Individualisation - people now pursue their own self-interest - relationships now are more fragile as people focus on themselves. Negotiated families - we created roles based on our needs
