FAMILY DIVERSITY Flashcards
SOCIAL CLASS
Postmodernist
•class doesn’t shape personal relationships anymore - individualism
•Paulski and waters - defined by what we buy not what we do
SOCIAL CLASS
Postmodernist
defined by what we buy not what we do
Sociologist
Paulski and waters
SOCIAL CLASS
Marxist
•lack of economic capital stops social mobility and socialisation
SOCIAL CLASS
Gillies survey
3 findings
- Recourses
- Individuality
- Interactions
SOCIAL CLASS
Gillies
1. Recourses
•Middle class - use recourses to support kids
•Working class - develop strategies to cope with being poor
SOCIAL CLASS
Gillies
2. Individuality
•Middle class - emphasises children’s individuality
•Working class - don’t want kids to stand out and avoid trouble
SOCIAL CLASS
Gillies
3. Interactions
•Middle class - happy to interact with teachers and doctors. Private care
•Working class - parents reluctant to have kids diagnosed. Not taken seriously
ETHNICITY
SOUTH ASIAN
Organise religion to ethnicity
•Indian - sihk / Hindu
•Pakistan / Bangladeshi - Muslim
ETHNICITY
SOUTH ASIAN
Ballard - Indian settlers traditional culture
5
- family honour - individual represents family
- Traditional gender roles
- Obligation to family surprising individual
- Arranged families connecting families
- Beanpole families
ETHNICITY
SOUTH ASIAN
Ballard - Indian settlers changes
3
- Younger generations can choose partners
- Nuclear family not beanpole
- Divorce increase
ETHNICITY
SOUTH ASIAN
Sociologist platt
Larger family size than white. Houses that have 4+ members
-white 16%
-Pakistani 43%
-Bangladeshi 49%
ETHNICITY
AFRICAN - CARIBBEAN
What is the main family type in Jamaica?
Matrifocal, lone parent, nuclear, cohabit
ETHNICITY
AFRICAN - CARIBBEAN
Sociologist Bethoud
Patterns between African Caribbean and UK - high patterns of divorce
SOCIAL CLASS
Marxist
What is class reproduction
Kids share same class to parents
SOCIAL CLASS
Marxist
Katz
Struggle of poverty makes it hard for parents to bring up kids efficiently
ETHNICITY
Rank employment within women
- White female
- South Asian female
- African Caribbean female
ETHNICITY
AFRICAN CARIBBEAN
How to single mothers socialise their kids
Horizontal male figures - brothers
ETHNICITY
Patterns of ethnicity
Berthoud - what do they say
Ethnic families range from old fashioned values to modern individualism
ETHNICITIES
Patterns of ethnicity
Criticisms of Berthoud
Mann
African Caribbean lone parent isn’t modern individualism but traditional AC values
SEXUALITY
timeline
1967 - legalised male 21+
2005 civil partnerships
2014 - marriage legalised
SEXUALITY
Egalitarian definition
People deserve to be treated like equally
SEXUALITY
Who says there is new intimacy due to freedom - choice of family (eg friends)
Giddens
SEXUALITY
Feminists
Gay treated as family outlaws who threaten family life
Lesbians challenge heteronormativity
