Family Diversity

Question 1

Chester (M)

Answer 1

Neo - conventional family
^ dual earner family in which both spouses go out to work

Question 2

Rapoports (M)

Answer 2

Diversity is so important in understanding family life today
identify 5 types of family diversity:
. organisational diversity
. cultural diversity
. social class diversity
. life - stage diversity
. generational diversity

Question 3

Benson (M)

Answer 3

Couples are more stable when they’re married

Question 4

Giddens (PM)

Answer 4

Argues in recent decades family and marriage have been transformed by greater choice and more equal relationship

Question 5

Beck (PM)

Answer 5

Argues we now live in a ‘risk free’ society where tradition has less influence and people have more choice

Question 6

Smart and May (PM)

Answer 6

Criticises Beck agrees there is more family diversity but don’t believe it is risk free

Question 7

Giddens and Beck (PM)

Answer 7

Individualisation Thesis
^ fewer fixed roles in todays society so more choice on family and relationships

Question 8

Budgeon (PM)

Answer 8

Criticises Giddens and Beck:
traditional norms that limit peoples relationship choices havent been weakened as much as the individualisation thesis claims

Question 9

Smart

Answer 9

Conectedness Thesis
^ Argues that we are fundamentally social beings whose choices are always made within a ‘web of conectedness’
- class and gender
- social structures