Hectic Family recall questions Flashcards
What type of family has many generations but not many within each generation?
Beanpole family
Name one way in which childhood could be said to be toxic.
Junk Food,
Technology and Video Games,
and Lack of parental engagement.
Identify one government policy from the last 40 years which has impacted the family (1970+).
Children’s Act, Civil Partnerships, Child Support Agency, Paternity Leave, New Deal, Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013, Sex Discrimination Act, Equal Pay Act
Which sociologist completed a study looking at housewives and housework?
Oakley
Triple shift?
Emotional support, domestic labour, PAID WORK
Which family type has the mother in charge?
Matrifocal, lone female parent only
What is the general trend in births since 1900?
Decline. Since the most recent peak in 2012, the number of live births in England and Wales has dropped by 15.9%
Reasons for the rise in divorce.
Legal changes: Divorce reform Act,
Secularisation,
Decline in stigma,
Rise in expectations,
changing role of women.
Define the term infant mortality rate.
NUMBER of infant deaths BEFORE their first birthday per 1000 live births, per year.
What term is used to describe a family where there are multiple wives?
Polygyny
Define symmetrical family.
Where there is equality between the partners in terms of domestic labour, resource and decision making.
What is the definition of fertility rate?
The average number of children a woman will have during her childbearing years (15–45). Around 1.5 in England.
What does the term “Dark side of the family” refer to?
Abuse and Violence in the family
Define “Expressive role”
Caring role, emotional support
What is a neo-conventional family? who talked about it?
Duel-earning family with traditional roles and uneuqal division of labour. Chester
5 types of diversity according to the Rapaports?
Cultural, Life course, Organisational, Generational, Social Class.
Reasons for the rise in cohabitation
rising expectations lead to trial marriages
Secularisation,
Less stigma,
4 functions of the family according to Murdock?
Socialisation
Reproductive
Economic
Sexual: stabilisation of sex drive
What is the postmodernist view of the family?
We create the family that suits our needs at that moment in time. Everyone has the freedom of choice to build relationships that fits their own needs.
Define conjugal roles
Equal domestic labour and spend leisure time tgt.
Who talked about Negotiated family and individualisation.
Beck
What is the general trend in marriages in the past 50 years?
decline. fallen by 50% in the past 50 years.
3 Inequalities between children and adults
Control over time and space
Control over the physical body
Control over resources
3 reasons for change in position of children
Compulsory education
Laws protecting children’s rights
Smaller families
What is a pure relationship?
Individuals decide to carry on maintaining their relationship SOLELY because it meets their emotional and sexual needs
Key term to describe inequality and domination of adult over children
age patriarchy, child liberationists love that.
Tow ways money is controlled in family. Name the theorists
Paul and Volger. Pooling and allowance system
Fictive Kin?
Carol smart. PLP: friends you treat as family, altho not have blood ties.
Who suggested that domestic violence is caused threat to male authority and patriarchy and the need for men to assert their power over women?
Dobash and Dobash
Which perspective sees the rising divorce rate as meaning that people have more choice over their lives?
Postmodernism
What is meant by a social construct?
Social phenomena created and vary from society to society and from time to time.
R5 easons for decline in Birth Rate
More women at paid work and delayed marriage,
Introduction of contraception,
Decline in infant mortality rate,
Child centeredness
Children as economic liabilities
3 reasons for rise in lone parent families
Rise of divorce,
Single by choice,
Fertility technology
Reasons for the decline in death rate.
Improved diet and nutrition,
Medical Improvements,
less smoking and diet,
decline in dangerous manual occupations,
4 ways that the family support capitalism according to the Marxists?
Inheritance and concentration of wealth
Unit of consumption
Cushioning effect
Reproduction of next generation of workers
3 impacts of ageing population
Higher dependency ratio,
more extended family,
more demand for social services.
What did Parson’s mean by “functional fit”?
Families change structure to fit the needs of society. Nuclear families “fit” industrial society due to social and geographical mobility, extended family “fit” pre-industrial society.
fancy term for stepfamily where children from previous relations are brought to a new relationship?
Reconstituted family
3 reasons for child-centredness in families
Less children
Laws
Rise in living standards and more resources
What is serial monogamy?
Sexually exclusive relationships that follow one after another in a person’s lifetime
In which ethnic group are matrifocal single parent families most common?
Afro-Caribbean families. Shows ethnicity and culture plays a role in family diversity.
What is the difference between empty nest and empty shell marriage?
Empty nest means children have grown up and left home.
Empty shell marriage means there is no love between the partners but stays together for children.
What is an extended family?
3 or more generations living tgt
What is the main difference between postmodernist and sociology of personal life views of the family.
PLP: choices based on personal experiences
Postmodernism: based on needs
Who suggested that the universal nuclear family
Murdock
Fancy word for not having a father
Paternal deprivation
Fancy word when the population relies on the government for a living and do not actively seek work.
Dependency Culture
