Families And Religion Flashcards
Honest broker
Churches are often neutral ground for both sides
Good place to hold negotiations
Divine transcendence
God was so far and above human understanding that it was impossible to know his will
Organic intellectual
Educated religious leaders living in poor communities who helped form organisations e.g. trade unions
Teach them to read and write
Better world
Why Earth can’t be like heaven with equality
Mobilising public opinion
Church congregations are often large, and gatherings can be used to spread ideas
Dwight Billings
Textile workers - company churches - submissive and accepted the status quo
Miners - free local churches - joined trade unions and fought for better pay and conditions
High moral ground
Shamed whites into changing the law use the values of the whites own religion to point out the unfairness of the system through Martin Luther King
Asceticism
Faith meant they could not spend their accumulated wealth on luxuries
Salvation panic
Never truly know whether God had forgiven them
Predestination
God already knows who will pray for forgiveness and therefore have a place in heaven
Glorify God
Called to live in the world
Through their work
Hard working and disciplined
Very successful and wealthy
Calvinism
Emergence of capitalism
Followed ideas of John Calvin
Dual consciousness
Know what they are told to believe but they are not stupid - see what the world is really like
Civil rights movement
Religiously motivated social change
Channelling dissent
A way to express feelings of injustice or anger
E.g. funeral of Martin Luther King
Singing hymns
Religion and control
Ruling class used religion to maintain control telling the poor that if they are ‘meek’ and do not cause trouble then they will go to heaven
Weber
Calvinism
Bruce
Considers the civil rights movement as the backbone of the black clergy movement
Hegemony
One group has control over another
Lower paid jobs
Women willing to follow their partner meaning they would have to find a new job and start over on lower pay
Testing
In education
Leading parents to become obsessive and competitive over their progress
Social class
Different expectations of childhood
Richer parents - encourage university - music lessons
Poorer families - paper rounds
Cultural differences
Girls will often have a more restricted childhood
Asian families more strict
Money
Children in dual income households more spent on them than before
Benefits available for lone parents
Donzelot
Surveillance is not targeted equally on all families - poorer families are more likely to be seen as a problem
Policing of families
Individualisation
Families now have many different structures rather than the nuclear family
Department for education
Child abuse
Neglect
Emotional
Many families, parents put their own needs first
Toxic childhood
Rapid technological and cultural changes damaged children’s physical, emotional and intellectual development
Pester power
Large businesses deliberately target children more money spent on children than in the past
Obesity
Junk food deliberately targeted at children
Crime
Children below 10yrs old cause 3000 crimes each year
Parents often don’t know where their children are or what they are doing
Large families
Older siblings often required to take on a more adult role in looking after their siblings
Compulsory schooling
Lengthened the period of child dependency
Industrialisation
Children could not survive harsh conditions in the factories
Seeing them as innocent and vulnerable
Capitalism
Channelled their money back into their businesses thrived as a result beginning of modern capitalism
Jenks
Relationships in chaotic post modern times are increasingly unstable
Couples split and feel less secure
Held together by confluent not romantic love
Aries
Child centredness began during the industrial revolution
Safeguarding
Every child has a right to equal protection from harm
Report any concerns
Childs benefits
Mothers were paid benefits for each child without interference from the fathers
Divorce reform act
Irreconcilable differences
Neither partner has to prove the other was at fault
Shared parental leave
50 weeks off work
Companies are less likely to discriminate against women
Sue Palmer
Toxic childhood
Stranger danger
More cars on road
Alternative entertainment at home
Ferry children
Family size
Smaller families means more investment in the child’s life
Confluent love
Children cannot walk out - more protective and childhood even more precious
New right
Afraid that it encouraged mothers to be independent lone parent women were bringing up boys without a male role model
Benefits led to a dependency culture
Charles Murray
Encourages girls to have children they could not otherwise afford
Beck Gernstein
Sees rising divorce rate as a product of individualisation
Giddens
Confluent and pure love relationships
Stay in relationships only as long as it suits them
Gramsci
Can be done through ideas as much as it can be done by force
Young and Willmott
Families are becoming more symmetrical sharing instrumental and expressive roles
Oakley
Men claim to do a lot of work however women spend more time on it
Allen
Women’s jobs are less satisfying
Dunscombe and Masden
Triple shift
Paid employment, household chores and emotional work
Phall
Inequality for pay
Separate bank accounts but the women still pay for the children out their bank account
Compton and Lycotte
Women bore the biggest burden of housework
Southern
Similar leisure time
Women interrupted by a child forced to multi task
BSAS
British Social Attitudes Survey
Men spent 10 hours on care for family members but women spent 23 hours