Family Diversity

Question 1

Murdock

Answer 1

Universal nuclear family , 4 functions - sexual , reproduction,economic and education

Question 2

Ballard

Answer 2

South Asian families more likely to be extended and patriarchal

Question 3

Barrow

Answer 3

Black families more likely to be lone parent

Question 4

Morgan

Answer 4

We construct our own life course and relationships - families are not fixed structures

Question 5

Rapoports

Answer 5

T types of family diversity : organisational,cultural,social class,life stage and generational CLOGS

Question 6

Giddens

Answer 6

Choice, diversity, equality of relationships. Pure relationships, confluence love , disembedded

Question 7

Beck

Answer 7

Risk society, negotiated families , individualisation thesis

Question 8

Stacey

Answer 8

Divorce extended family, women free from patriarchal oppression

Question 9

Chester

Answer 9

Neo- conventional family , diversity is exaggerated

Question 10

Weeks

Answer 10

Sexual morality is a choice , acceptance of diversity

Question 11

Weeks

Answer 11

Sexual morality is a choice , acceptance of diversity

Question 12

Smart

Answer 12

More family diversity, but critical of individualisation thesis , supports connectedness thesis through a web of connectedness