Family Diversity Flashcards
What are the 5 types of family diversity defined by Rapoport and Rapoport?
Organisational diversity Cultural diversity Class diversity Life-course diversity Cohort diversity
What are the main trends in marriage in the UK?
Marriage rates are falling Divorce increasing Cohabiting increasing Remarrying increasing People marrying later in life
What does Chester argue?
Though there has been some growth in family diversity, the nuclear family remains dominant. Statistics show an increase in diversity because of the UK’s ageing population in which the elderly won’t be in a nuclear family.
What is the sociology of personal life?
Focuses on what the family themselves see as important in their lives rather than what sociologists believe is important
What is Smart’s alternative to the individualisation thesis (people don’t have to conform to strict family roles)?
The connectedness thesis - argues that individual choices are influenced by relationships and past experiences & class and gender also influence our options
What did Modood eat al find about ethnic minorities in the UK?
Whites and African-Caribbeans were most likely to be divorced
Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and African Asians were most likely to be married
African-Caribbean households were most likely to be lone-parent
South Asian families are traditionally extended families, though nuclear is increasing
What are ‘negotiated families’? (Beck)
Family units that vary according to the needs of the people within them (more equal than nuclear families but less stable)
What is the ‘divorce-extended family’? (Stacey)
When mostly female members of an extended family stay connected by choice after divorce - this is due to greater individualism among women
