Family Patterns - sociologists

Question 1

Weeks

Answer 1

chosen families - same sex relationships created around kinship and friendship - they are as stable as traditional families

Question 2

Giddens

Answer 2

Confluent love =Pure relationship - based on love and only last if the couples are happy

Question 3

Beck

Answer 3

Individualisation - now pursue their own self interest - relationships are now more fragile as people focus on themselves. Negotiated families - we created roles based on our needs

Question 4

Reynolds

Answer 4

Black Carribean families - visiting families - headed by women (matrifocal) who has a male partner play a full and active role when he’s at home