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Family diversity! Flashcards

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What do the New Right believe about the family?

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Nuclear family = ideal family type

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What views do conservatives hold on the family?

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  • Most natural - married couple (heterosexual)
  • Instrumental and expressive roles (based on biology)
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What family type does the New Right HATE?

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lone parent households (especially led by the mother)

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Why does the New Right HATE lone-parent mothers?

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  • Can’t be role models to their sons - leads to educational failure, delinquency and social disintegration
  • Can’t discipline children properly
  • More likely to be poor - dependency culture (Murray)
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Which type of partnership do New Right realists believe is the best to raise children?

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Married couples - Benson (2006) - 20% cohabiting relationships breakdown vs 6% marriages - most stable!

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Why does Benson say that marriages are more stable than cohabiting couples?

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Former - have a commitment more likely to stick to it and be responsible vs cohabiting - can avoid commitment and responsibility?

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What is the New Right’s solutions to society and the family being broken?

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Return to traditional views and values
Anti-divorce, gay marriage and easier access to welfare - undermines the family

  • Anti-welfare (dependency culture)
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What is the neo-conventional family according to Chester (1985)?

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Move away from instrumental and expressive roles to dual earner households where both partners take on the instrumental role

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True or false: Chester states that not much has changed in terms of family diversity?

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True - most people end up in a nuclear family

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State three reasons why Chester believes that the nuclear family is still the most dominant family type

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  • Most people live in a family headed by a married couple
  • Cohabitation has increased, but is often used as a stepping stone to marriage (nuclear family)
  • Most marriages continue until death and a lot of people re-marry
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What do postmodernists believe about the family?

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No longer live in a stable and predictable society - the family has become fragmented

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What does Stacey (1998) say postmodernism has enabled women to do?

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Free themselves from patriarchal relationships - they rejected the housewife role and went to work, university and divorced/remarried

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What is the individualisation thesis?

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Traditional social structures that used to govern our relationships have lost influence leading to increased choice

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What is life-course analysis?

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Explores the meanings individuals give to relationships rather than impose the sociologist’s meanings onto them

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What research method is for the life course analysis?

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Unstructured interviews

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According to Giddens (1992) how has choice and equality affected relationships?

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People are free to define relationships themselves, free from the constrains of society

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Why have changes occurred in relationships according to Giddens?

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Contraceptives - relationship is based around sex and intimacy rather than reproduction (Durkheim)

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What are pure relationships?

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Relationships based on couples meeting each other’s emotional and sexual needs - people stay together because they want to, not because of society or familial pressure

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What is the downside of pure relationships?

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Rolling contract - people can more or less leave at their will rather than stay committed - leads to more diversity

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What does Giddens see same-sex couples as?

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Pioneers for family diversity since they do not conform to heterosexual norms of modern society

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What is Beck and Beck-Gernsheim’s (1995) view of the negotiated family?

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Don’t conform to traditional norms but negotiate what works for each family member - equal relationship

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What is the zombie family?

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Appears to be real but is dead, people seek stability when reality is very unstable (risk society)

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What are the critiques to the postmodernist view on family diversity?

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Overexaggerates the amount of choice people have in society (Budgeon 2011)

May and Smart - Ignored structural issues - ethnicity, class and gender

Einasdottir (2011) - lesbianism is tolerated but heteronormativity still exists - leading to people not coming out

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What is the connected thesis?

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Smart - people live within existing relationships and person histories which informs our relationship choices - limited choice

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