Family Diversity

Question 1

Rapports

Answer 1

Believe that there are many different types of family diversity : cultural diversity caused by migration, lifestage diversity : likely to experience a variety of different structures , organisational diversity : every relationship is different in the way that they organise domestic tasks

Question 2

Giddens

Answer 2

Due a decline in traditional pressures and an increase in divorce, family diversity is the norm which allows individuals to form pure relationships that bring happiness rather than being bound to empty shell marriages

Question 3

Chester - functionalist

Answer 3

He believes that the nuclear family is still dominant but has just evolved into a dual career family- though women still carry out the expressive role

Question 4

Marxist feminist

Answer 4

Nuclear family still dominates family life because it is the family norm best suited to meeting the needs of capitalist system for reproducing the future workforce at a minimal cost and for maintaining the health and effectiveness of the current workforce

Question 5

Living apart together : Duncan and Phillips

Answer 5

: young couples prefer to maintain a level of individualisation even though they are in a relationship and often leads to cohabitation

Question 6

Extended families

Answer 6

Due to internal migration and emigration, family members are now becoming more dispersed and peter wilmott claims that due to technology such as the internet and phones, families have even able to keep in close contact with members who have moved away and therefore have strong connections

Question 7

Gray : house husbands

Answer 7

There has been a clear shift in attitudes with regards to the role of men when it comes to childbearing- gray found that dads emphasised a desire to play a more active role in their child’s development