Family diversity: 36 Flashcards
1
Q
What is diversity?
A
Range of human differences
2
Q
What is family diversity?
A
Variety of family types and structures within society
3
Q
What is causing diversity?
A
- globalisation
- migration
- changes in law e.g divorce reform act 1969
- changing position of women
- changing social attitudes
- secularisation
4
Q
What do Functionalists believe about family diversity?
A
- nuclear family is best suited to fulfilling societies needs
- family diversity is just changing structures to meet their needs
- Parsons functional fit theory
5
Q
What do the New Right believe about family diversity?
A
- opposed
- nuclear family is best
- nuclear family is biology
- breakdown of society is due to decline of nuclear family
6
Q
Why are the new right critical of lone mother?
A
- usually dependant on welfare state
- improper socialisation of child means delinquency
7
Q
What did Benson investigate?
A
- analysed parents of 15,000 babies to see rate of breakdown in relationships during first 3 years of child life
- 20% failure in cohabitating couples
- 6% failure in married couples
8
Q
What does Bensons experiment show?
A
- marriage is a better environment for childbearing
- marriage is more stable
- government should encourage marriage
