Family diversity- Social class & Ethnic diversity

Question 1

What is meant by social class?

Answer 1

Your income and the status you have within society
Middle- professionals
Working- manual

Question 2

What doe Kiernen and Miller say about the WC and marital breakdowns?

Answer 2

Those from lower social classes are more likely to experience marital breakdowns compared to those from a higher class

Question 3

Why may this be the case?

Answer 3

Financial strains can cause conflict

Question 4

What are traditional WC communities more likely to have?

Answer 4

Extended families (few exist)

Question 5

What did Charles find about traditional WC families?

Answer 5

Classic extended families were practically extinct, apart from those amongst ethnic minority groups

Question 6

What family type are MC more likely to be?

Answer 6

Privatised nuclear family
(2 parents and children, isolated from extended relatives)

Question 7

What family type are more likely to be?

Answer 7

modified extended families
- extended relatives may still play an important role but not within the same household
- maintain regular contact and mutual support with extended relatives

Question 8

Impact of WC having shorter life expectancy

Answer 8

Increased health needs, impact support needed from family members

Question 9

What are MC more likely to have due to financial stability?

Answer 9

Pay for private childcare (nursery/nannies)
- dual earner family
- domestic tasks shared more equally
- both work

Question 10

Patterns for different ethnic groups and their households

Answer 10

Asian- most common- married/same-sex civil partnership
least common- pensioner couple
Black- mc, one person, lc, pensioner
Mixed- same as black
White- mc, married/same sex lc, other

Question 11

What percentage of the UK population are classified as white?

Answer 11

81.7%

Question 12

What percentage of the UK population is Asian or Asian British?

Answer 12

9.3%

Question 13

What percentage of the UK population is Black?

Answer 13

4%

Question 14

What percentage of the UK population is Mixed?

Answer 14

2.9%

Question 15

Rates of marriage

Answer 15

Pakistani, Indian and Bangladeshi highest
60%
Black Caribbean lowest
25.5%

Question 16

Asian households

Answer 16

3X less likely to be cohabitating
- higher rates of marriage
- half the rate of lone person household (compared to white)
- low level of pensioner couple households

Question 17

Black households

Answer 17

2X the rate of lone parent households
- low levels of pensioner couples
- high rate of other households- multigenerational?

Question 18

What was the total fertility rate for the UK in 2021?

Answer 18

1.5 compared to 2 for non-UK women
- birth rate is higher for non-UK women is 25% higher

Question 19

South Asian families

Answer 19

• patriarchal family structure (eldest male superiority)
• old-fashioned values once found in white past but is now rejected by white people
• larger family size, 4 or more children
• divorce rates are low, strong social disapproval
• wide support network of kin when under stress
• 3/4 of the Pakistani/Bangladeshi women married by 25
  (housewives, husbands have authority)

Question 20

Caribbean families

Answer 20

• ‘modern individualisation’
• individual choice, indeendence and commitment based on quality of relationships (Berthoud)
• marriage is just one of many lifestyle choices
• less likely to live with a partner
• lone-parenthood higher amongst mothers
• only 1/4 of children live with 2 black parents
  Matrifocal, women superior