Family diversity- Social class and ethnic diversity Flashcards
What is social class?
Social class is your income and status in society
Kiernan and Mueller on w/c and marital breakdown?
Those from lower social class are more likely to experience marital breakdown compared to higher class
-May be due to financial pressure or conflict
What family type is traditional working class families more likely to have- Charles?
Extended families
Classic extended families were practically extinct apart from those among ethnic minority community’s
What family type is traditional working class families more likely to have now?
Modified extended families
-W/C have shorter life expectancy and increased health needs impacting on the support needed from family members
What family type is middle class families more likely to have?
Privatised nuclear family
-Private childcare
-Dual earners with equally shared domestic tasks
Asian- what’s the most common family type vs least?
Most: Married same sex
Least: Pensioner couple
Black- what’s the most common family type vs least?
Most: One person household
Least: Pensioner couple
Mixed- what’s the most common family type vs least?
Most: One person household
Least: Pensioner couple
White- what’s the most common family type vs least?
Most: Married/same sex
Least: Other
Other- what’s the most common family type vs least?
Most: Married/same sex couple
Least: Pensioner
Ethnicity and population UK census?
White- 81.7%
Asian- 9.3%
Black- 4%
Mixed- 2.9%
Other- 2.3%
Who has the highest rates of marrige?
Pakistani, Indian and Bangladeshi
60% married
Who has the lowest rate of married
Black Caribbean 25.5%
Trends in marriage?
-Asian household are 3x less likely to be cohabiting and have high rates of marriage
-Asian household have half the rate of lone person household compared to white households
-Black and mixed households have twice the rate of lone parent households
-Black, Asian and mixed households have incredibly low levels of pensioner couple households compared to white households and much higher rates of other households (multigenerational)
Total fertility rates in the UK?
UK born women was 1.5 compared to 2 for non UK women
Means birth rates for non UK born mother is 25% higher
Caribbean culture- Berthoud?
‘Modern individualism’ (lack of customs and duty. More based on choice and quality of relationship)
-Low marriage rates
-High rate of lone parenthood, higher amongst caribbean women than any other ethnic groups
-Separation and divorce 2x as high for white people
-Mixed partisanship common (half black men with partners, live with white women)
-Very few Caribbean mean and women are married to each other
-High rates of black unemployed and reluctant to support a family
-Only 1/4 of black children live with 2 black parents
South Asian culture- Ballard?
-Extended family relationships more common in groups from pakistan, Bangladeshi and India
-Extended families still patriarchal structures
-Seniority to eldest male
South Asian culture- Berthoud?
Old fashioned values (commitment to marriage, tight knit families, birth within marriage, respect for parents, arranged marriages, husbands authority over wife, large number of children, women as housewives)
Similar to 1950s white British culture
-3/4 Pakistani and Bangladeshi women married by 25
-Divorce rates low due to social disapproval and strong family support networks
Caribbean culture evaluation- Barrow?
That plurality of family structure exists in both the Caribbean and the UK
Therefore its wrong to generalise Afro Caribbean culture
Caribbean culture evaluation- Chamberlain and Goulbourne?
African Caribbean female lone parents are often supressed by wide kinship network often include fictive kin family friends (referred to as aunty and uncle)
South Asian culture evaluation- Victor et al?
People in SA older people in England where uncertainty of weather they could relay on children
Young people where increasingly geographically mobile
Generally feeling they weren’t respected as in the past they were neglectful of response
