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Families and households- Family diversity Flashcards

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What is family diversity?

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Different types of families and households types that exist

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Who propsoed the ceral packet family?

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Ann Oakley

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What is the ceral packet family?

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-Media,Marketing and advertising often tries to sell products often tries to sell products to what it sees as a typical family
-Advertising portrays the conventional family as nuclear familys
-These familys are composed of legally married couples, volenterily choosing the parenthood of one of more children (but not to many children)

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Which two other authors see this stereotype as mnisleading?

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-Leach
-Thorne

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Is the ceral packet family portrayed as the norm?

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Yes

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What does family diversity suggest?

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-That no particular type of family is dominant and can be considered the norm

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What do the Rappoports point out about the nuclear family?

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-They are becoming a minority in britain

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What are the different types of family diversity? (CLOGS)

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-Cultural diversity
-LIfe stage
-Organisational diversity
-Generational diversity
-Social class

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What groups are more likely to live with their (classic) extended family?

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-Working class
-South Asian

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Which groups are more likely to have larger familys?

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-Indian
-Pakistani
-Bangledeshi

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How do modified extended familys keep intouch?

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-Technology
-Messages
-Skype
-Facetime
-Social media

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Chinese households have a high percenbtage of single people but a low percentage of ?

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Lone parents

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What are some norms for carribean households?

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-Low marrige rate (viewed as unimportant)
-HIgh levels of lone parenthood
-Mixed partnerships
-High rates of unemployment and low salries means it is difficult for men to support their familys
-Only 1/4 of black children live with 2 black parents
-More matrifocal

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What are some norms in South Asian households?

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-Births within marrige,family loyalty=strong, tight knit families, respect for elders
-Arranged marriges
-Hisbands authority over wives, womens roles are in the house
-Large number dof children
-Marrige at a young age 3/4 by 25
-Women do housework instead of paid employment
-Patriarchal
-Lower divorce rate
-Against cohabitation and lone parent families
-High marrige rate due to religious belifs

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Give some examples of regional diversity

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-Working class=extended family
-Middle class=nuclear family

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Give some reasons why the growth of family diversity hasv llead to a decline in the nuclear family?

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-Steady decline in marrige since 1970
-Increase in smae sex couples
-Increased divorce rate
-Shift in attitudes towrads having children
-Decreased birth rate
-Lone parent families
-Increased LAT relationships
-Economic factors (rising cost of living)
-Cohabitation
-Reconstitued families
-Single person households
-Cultural diversity
-Life stage diversity
-Organisational diversity
-Rappoport (1982)

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Give some reasons why the growth of family diversity has not lead to a decline in the nuclear family?

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-Ceral packet families

18
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What do functionalists believe about family diversity?

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-Positive and desireable as the family is adapting to the needs of society
-Fletcher= increase in diversity is a sign that people have higher expectations in relationships

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What do new right believe about family diversity?

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-Nuclear family is the best for a functioning society
-Worreis about expressive and instrumental roles
-Problematic espically for boys as who need aqequate role models to learn from

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What do marxists believe about family diversity?

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-The family adapts to the idea of captitalisim
-Children becoem docile workers and adults work for the ruling class
-Marxists are outdated as Engels and marx wrote before the changes happend

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What do femminists believe about family diversity?

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-Women now have more choices and alternatives to the nuclear family and patriarchal roles

22
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What do interpretivists believe about family diversity?

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-Want to understnad why these cahnges in family strcuture and relationships are happening

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What do postmodernists believe about family diversity?

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-See it as part of a bigger movemt in terms of more indivual choice becaus eof more choices
-Beck= greater risk to society
-Stacey=positive

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What does chester (1985) argue?

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-The nuclear family is still overwhelmingly the dominant form
-Neo conventional family-two parents and a small number of children, becuase of the wifes economically active role

25
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What is organisational diversity?

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-variations in how familys are structured

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What is cultural diversity?

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-Different cultures, ethnic and religious groups may have different family structures

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Social class diversity?

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-Differences between middle and working classin the ways adults have relationships and children are socialised

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What is life stage diversity?

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-Different family structures often are result of what stage people are in their lives
- Example: newly married couples may have no children

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What is generational diversity?

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-Different generations will have different life experiences and attitudes
-Older generations may view things such as divorce morally wrong

30
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Why is affluence a reason for an increase in family diversity?

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-Corallation between poverty and family size
-Poorer families tend to have more children

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Why is divorce a reason for an increase in family diversity?

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-Changes to divorve laws have lead to in an increase in lone parebnt and reconstituted families
-Less stigma

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Why is medicine a reason for an increase in family diversity?

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-Avalibilty of contraception and abortion

33
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Why is sexuality a reason for an increase in family diversity?

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-Increased tolerance

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Why is a decline religion a reason for an increase in family diversity?

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-Increase in cohabbitation
-Decline in the importance of marrige
-Increase in divorce
-Avalibilty of marrige
-Less sacred and not seen as a sin to have children outside of marrige

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