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Family Theorists Flashcards

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Challenged functionalist assumptions by showing how working class families lived in extended family

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Willmott and Young

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Described the amount of abuse in nuclear families

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Mirrlees-Black

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Nuclear family not equal as male expected to own and have the power in the household

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Player

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Triple shift

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Wallace

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Families socialise children into traditional gender patterns which perpetuate gender inequality

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Oakley

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People more socially and geographically mobile supportive role taken over by friends instead of family

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Pahl (Postmodernist)

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Traditional nuclear breadwinner male and female housewife is ideal family structure

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Parsons

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Suggest existence of divorce causes view that parent child relationship more satisfying than adult partnerships

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Smart and Neale

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Gay relationships not new only change is it’s now publicly acknowledged and doesn’t need hidden

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Heaphy

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Living apart together

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Levin

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Increased diversity in family structures and way people choose to live together

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Gillies and jamieson

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Increased diversity over stated always been varied family forms but people were more discrete in past to avoid ridicule

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Crow

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Main employer now is service industry not manufacturing which was male dominated more women work now and fewer male breadwinner families exist

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Macionis and Plummer

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Government policy led more women into workplace meaning children and relationships later in life so decrease in fertility don’t need to stay in unhappy relationships and child minding done by grandparents (1970 equal pay act)

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Lewis

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Marriage no longer economically necessary for women so less marriages

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Flour and Buchanan

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Marriage now a matter of choice people have higher expectations of marriage and due to lighter divorce laws they can easily leave relationships

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Drew

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17
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Changing technology hasn’t damaged family as it is reaction of social need such as mobile phones so people can stay in touch while being more geographically mobile

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Silva

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Saturated family: due to technology families are more fractured as there are sources of entertainment in every room they don’t sit together

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Gergen

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Links welfare payment to unmarried women, illegitimate births, crime and refusal of young men to get jobs

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Charles Murray

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Belief of church that people should stay married is now irrelevant as formal religion declined

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Wilson

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People expect more from marriage and women expect more from life than marriage and domestic labour

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Fletcher

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People accept co habitation now as a legitimate living arrangement and not just a trial marriage

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Coast

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People choose co habitation due to fear of divorce

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Morgan (New right)

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Older people who live alone will not live with other people again

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Smith and Chandler

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Living alone is seen as mark of success among younger people

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Klinenburg

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Childhood is a social construction and has only existed as a special part of life for 150 years in west

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Aries

27
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Children have expressive and instrumental role in family

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Mayall

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Studied girl friend groups found they can be supportive and caring but also bitch,fall out and exclude others from social network

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Hey

29
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Studied how boys constructed masculinity and how this prevented boys from discussing or managing feelings

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Frosh

30
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Argues British culture has become child centred people have less children but focus more time and energy in their children

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Pilcher

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Childhood is disappearing as:
- children have rights
- can access adult world due to TV
- imitate adult behavior in dress and criminal activity

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Postman

32
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Toxic childhood: working parents leave less adult time for children who are vulnerable to damage from junk food and television leads to obesity, self harm, early sex, binge drinking

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Sue Palmer

33
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Parenting now seen as complex skill that needs learned

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Furedi

34
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Men help women more with domestic labour now but domestic labour is still the job of women

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Wilmott and Young

35
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Housework is oppressive and dissatisfying especially with women movement into workplace

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Oakley and Gavron

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Men now have to support women in domestic labour out of necessity as both now work

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Devine

37
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Men made the infrequent important decisions for the family in middle class families even when both work

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Edgell

38
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Women made frequent smaller decisions men dealt with bigger more expensive issues such as buying a car

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Pahl

39
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When both partners work still male dominance in decisions but shifting towards equality

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Hardhill

40
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Lagged adaption: men having to change to women joining workforce but doing it slower than women

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Gershuny

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Women behavior in household constrained by fear of men

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Hanmer and Saunders

42
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Pure relationships: people stay together out of happiness not out of necessity different from romantic love which was a myth used to tie women to marriage

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Giddens

43
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Majority of women happy in traditional family roles and can control men through erotic capital

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Hakim

44
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In disadvantaged families e.g lone parent, disabled children Grandparents provide emotion, practical and financial support even at their own cost

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Hillman and Hastings

45
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Carers are mostly women and men in their 40s and 50s who are in work with 3 million workers being carers

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Bryan

46
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Nuclear family developed to suit needs of modern industrial society known as fit thesis

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Functionalists e.g Parsons criticised by historians

47
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Family has two functions for society
Stabilisation of adult personality
Socialisation of children

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Parsons

48
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Four functions of family
- control sexual behavior of adults
- economic support for children
- reproduction
- education of family members

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Murdock

49
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Neo conventional family: family diversity overstated nuclear family still most dominant but in new form were both parents work

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Chester

50
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Families taught children to accept inequality as father is dominant and in control

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Althusser

51
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Family is only place working men can feel they have power aswell as men with families less likely to take strike action against employers

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Zaretsky

52
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Types of family diversity: family structures, ethnic and cultural variations, social class differences, life course, generation born into (Cohort)

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Rapoports

53
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Family undergone major changes as society is now unpredictable

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Cheal

54
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Change in family caused by greater equality between men and women but the cost of this is less stable personal relationships

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Giddens

55
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Risk society: tradition has less influence people have more choices and are more aware of the risks and rewards. Families are now negotiated and leave if they aren’t satisfied with relationships

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Beck

56
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Routines make a family not relationships

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David Morgan

57
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Women drivers of family change women now have opportunities to create new and varied family structures

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Stacey

58
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Family’s remain fairly traditional but acceptance of difference is growing

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Weeks

59
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Traditional family threatened by welfare state as young men didn’t have to take responsibility for fatherhood and children grow up with no male role model which leads to lazy, benefit dependent and criminal

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Charles Murray

AS WJEC Sociology (7 decks)

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