family key sociologists

Question 1

Who spoke about the four essential functions of the family?

Answer 1

MURDOCK (functionalist)
- satisfaction of sex drive
- reproduction
- socialisation
- meeting economic needs

Question 2

Who created the functional fit theory?

Answer 2

PARSONS (functionalist)
- as society changes, the type of family that fits society changes

Question 3

Who said that only 10% of households contained extended kin before the industrial revolution?

Answer 3

LASLETT
- use to criticise parsons functional fit

Question 4

Who argued that the nuclear family did emerge from the late 20th century but the extended family has not disappeared?

Answer 4

YOUNG AND WILMOTT
- use to criristise parsons functional fit

Question 5

Who spoke about the two essential functions of the family, primary socialisation and the stabilisation of adult personalities?

Answer 5

PARSONS (functionalist)

Question 6

Who spoke about the family performing the function of passing on wealth and reproducing inequality?

Answer 6

ENGELS (marxists)

Question 7

Who argued that family is an ideological conditioning device?

Answer 7

COOPER (marxist)
- promoted hierarchy and inequality
- family acts as a safe haven
- family is a unit of consumption

Question 8

Who argued family provides a safe haven?

Answer 8

ZARETSKY (marxists)

Question 9

which feminists argued that women and subordinate to men and that women need wives not husbands?

Answer 9

GREER (Radical)

Question 10

which feminists argued that violence is the product of patriarchal ideas that see women as second hand citizens?

Answer 10

Dobash and Dobash (Radical)

Question 11

which feminist argued women are the takers of shit?

Answer 11

Ansley (marxist)

Question 12

which feminist argued that women are the reserve army of labour?

Answer 12

Benston (marxists)

Question 13

which feminists argued that women are working the triple shift?

Answer 13

Duncombe and mardson

Question 14

which feminist argued that social policy reforms are needed to improve family, not revolution?

Answer 14

somerville (liberal)

Question 15

who argued we are living in a risk society as we have more individual freedom?

Answer 15

BECK (postmodernist)

Question 16

Who argued that family’s have more individualisation and pure relationships?

Answer 16

GIDDENS (postmodernist)

Question 17

who claimed the term genderquake?

Answer 17

wilkinson - economic power is shifting to women

Question 18

who argued that overgenerous welfare benefits encourage single parent families?

Answer 18

Morgan

Question 19

who spoke about the five types of family diversity?

Answer 19

the rapoports
- organisational
- culture
- class
- life course
- cohort

Question 20

who said that there is far greater diversity in peoples domestic arrangements

Answer 20

alan and crow

Question 21

who said that relationship and family diversity are so diverse there are no longer any clear norms

Answer 21

beck-gernshiem

Question 22

who argued that lone parent households are caused by an increase in divorce and an increase in birth to unmarried mothers

Answer 22

alan and crow

Question 23

who argued that lone parent households are due to generosity in welfare payments

Answer 23

murray

Question 24

who interviewed 300 single americans and found living alone was a genuine life choice?

Answer 24

kleinberg

Question 25

who coined the term beanpole families

Answer 25

brannen

Question 26

who spoke about segregated and joint conjugal roles within the family?

Answer 26

elizabeth bott

Question 27

who spoke about the symmetrical family?

Answer 27

young and wilmott

Question 28

which feminist spoke about housewives being unfulfilled and repetitive?

Answer 28

oakley

Question 29

which feminist takes a march of progress view and argues there is a rise of the dual earner household

Answer 29

sommerville

Question 30

who spoke about the negotiated family?

Answer 30

beck

Question 31

who spoke about the rational choice theory of women either choosing employment or marriage?

Answer 31

Hakim

Question 32

who found that lesbian relationships do not suffer the triple shift as they do not need to take on the lack of emotional work from the male

Answer 32

dunne

Question 33

who argued as women moved into paid employment they spent less time doing housework and men did more housework?

Answer 33

Gershuny

Question 34

which feminists argued domestic violence occurs because men are the enemy, oppressors and exploit women?

Answer 34

millet

Question 35

who argued that when the power or the authority of the male was threatened, this resulted in domestic violence

Answer 35

dobash and dobash

Question 36

who argued that there is a change in fatherhood and three types of dads, old dads, new dads and super dads?

Answer 36

kaufman

Question 37

who did a survey with 102 couples about how they manage money

Answer 37

phal

Question 38

which sociologists argued that there is a dominant framework in which we view children?

Answer 38

prout and james

Question 39

who studied childhood in bolivia and found children were specked to start working at 5 years old

Answer 39

punch

Question 40

who developed the theory of paranoid parenting

Answer 40

furedi

Question 41

who argued that in the middle ages, childhood did not exist and that there is an emergence of the cult of childhood

Answer 41

aries

Question 42

who argued that parental attitudes towards children have changed

Answer 42

shorter

Question 43

who developed the term age patriarchy

Answer 43

gittins

Question 44

which sociologists argued that there is a toxic childhood

Answer 44

sue palmer

Question 45

who spoke about the disappearance of childhood and that tv and interest are blurring the lines between adults and children

Answer 45

postman

Question 46

which sociologist argued that welfare benefits from the government offer perverse incentives (they reward irresponsible behaviour)

Answer 46

murray

Question 47

which sociologist argued that social policies are a form of state power and control over families

Answer 47

Donzelot