Family Sociologists Flashcards

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1
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Ballard

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Asian families are more traditional

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Bhatti

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Izzat (family honour)

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3
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Modood

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Asian families are becoming less traditional

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Bethuad

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String independent black women

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5
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Chamberlain + Goulborne

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Afro-Caribbean mothers more likely to be supported by extended kinship

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Dale et al

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Black women tend to remain in full time employment when had children
Asian women have decreased economy activity when with a partner and children

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7
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Rapoports

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Family life in britian characterized by diversity

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Foster

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Extended family live close by for working class

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9
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Oakley

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Middle class more symmetrical
Idea of helping wife with houseowir implies it is her work
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10
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Fitzgerald + weeks

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Children from same sex couples no different

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11
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Chester

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Most people want marriage and children, happily ever after

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12
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Ashford

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British have very traditional families

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13
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De’Ath

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Tensions in reconstituted family as confused roles

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14
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Fureudi

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Paranoid parents

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15
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Morgan

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Cohabitation shows marriage going out of fashion

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16
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Beaujouan

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Cohabiting before marriage is the norm

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17
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Hall

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Freedom of being single, focus on career

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18
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Wilkinson

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Genderquake

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19
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Giddenns

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Confluent love - temporary, intense, fragile

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20
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Mcrae

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Fear of divorce makes people reject marriage

Intimacy at a distance due to technology

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21
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Leach

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Nuclear family has emotional overload

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22
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Crocket + Tripp

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Normalisation of divorce

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23
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Kiernan + Mueller

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Financial problems cause divorce

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24
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Amato

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Risk factors for divorce e.eg. marrying young, different ethnic background

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25
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Kurz

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Economic position of women restricts divorce

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26
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Allan + Crow

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Divorce is now better for women financially

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27
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Gittins

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Women are more dissatisfied with marriage

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28
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Thorne + Collard

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Women expect more from marriage

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29
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Fletcher + Parsons

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People demand more from marriage

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30
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Fletcher

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High value placed on marriage

Family has retained its functions, other institutions added to functions not suppressed

31
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Smart

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Family life can adapt to changes without disintegrating

32
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Stacey

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Postmodernism, no ideal family type as diverse

33
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Dennis

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New right, lone parents lead to delinquency

34
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Beck + Beck Gernshein

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Individualisation - independence means more diversity

35
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Murdock

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Functions of family: sexual relations, raising children, consumption, socialisation

36
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Parsons

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Functions: socialisation, stabilisation of adult persi abilities
Functional prerequisites:
Instrumental and expressive role determined by biology
Warm bath and best fit

37
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Engels

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Capitalism led to the rise of the nuclear family, private property laws led to popularity of marriage, capitalism resulted in women being servant of the family

38
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Zaretsky

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Family serves capitalism - having children creates a workforce, takes care of workers, enforces hierarchy, vital unit of consumption
Patriarchy serves interests of capitalism, housewives keep capitalism going

39
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Ansley

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Emotional support from wife is a safety valve for the frustration capitalism produces in a husband at work
Women are the “takers of sh*t” as the frustration of men results in domestic violence

40
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Greer

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Family disadvantages women

41
Q

Grundy + Henretta

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Sanwhich generation of women caring for elderly and children

42
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Willmott + Young

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Symmetrical family, joint conjugal roles, egalitarian marriage, extended replaced with privatised nuclear family
72% of men helped with domestic chores

42
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Dunscombe + Marsden

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Emotional work is part of women’s invisible labour, operate a triple shift of emotional, paid and housework

43
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DeVault

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Women primarily responsible for planning and organising family meals

44
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Warner

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Homme based mothers work 100 hours a week

45
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Bibby financial

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Women spend 3x longer on demometstic work as men

46
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Hoschild

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Women have main responsibility and less leisure time

47
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Gershuny

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Gradual increase in housework done by men but both less likely to spend time on house work due to labour saving devices

48
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Hakim

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Women and men have the same number of productive work hours of 8 per day

49
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Harkness

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Men do more hours of payed work

Only group where women work more than men is couples without children

50
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Edgell

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Men make important decisions, women make unimportant

51
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Leighton

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Women make more financial decisions if husband is unemployed

52
Q

Hardill

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Small shift towards egalitarian relationships but men still dominate decision making

53
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Pahl

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Husband controls money management but shift away from allowance system

54
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Volger + Pahl

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Women more likely to reduce spending for cutbacks

55
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Gattrell

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Couples compete for control of children

56
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Delphy

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First opression is of women by men, housewife is a patriarchal role, glass ceiling of assumed role

57
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Dobash + Dobash

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Official statistics for abuse underestimate as victims not always come forward

58
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Stanko

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One in four women and 1 in seven men are victims of domestic violence

59
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Nasroo

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Men often intend on harming their partner whereas women usually act in self defence

60
Q

Sclater

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Some behaviours are less easy to recognise as violence e.g. verbal abuse

61
Q

Ghate

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Many parents agree snacking children is okay

62
Q

Taylor

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Figures on child abuse are flawed

63
Q

Aries

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Childhood developed from being treated as little workers and economic assets to having education and separate legal status in child centred society

64
Q

Stainton-Rogers

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Two images - innocent vs wicked

65
Q

Palmer

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Toxic childhood

66
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Postman

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Endd of childhood

67
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Lee

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Childhood has become more complex

68
Q

McCarthy

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Pressure to be a good mother

69
Q

Gray

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Fathers spend more time with children

70
Q

Lareau

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Social class, cultural capital and parenting

71
Q

Nelson

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Helicopter parenting

72
Q

Roseneil + Mann

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Single parents face prejudice

73
Q

Park

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More than one mother figure