hectic teach flashcard 3
What is a pure relationship?
A relationship that is held together by choice and love, not tradition or social norms.
Give one reason for the rise in the symmetrical family.
Changing role of women, Geographical Mobility, New Technology, Higher Standards of
living.
What is age patriarchy?
Adult domination over children.
Which sociologists are associated with the March of Progress view?
Wilmott and Young
Who believed that childhood isn’t disappearing but changing?
Opie
What is the difference between Emigration and immigration?
Emigration is leaving the country, Immigration is entering.
Who looked into the historical differences in childhood?
Aries
What is the information hierarchy
The division between adults who can read and children who can’t.
Pahland Volger identified two ways that money is controlled in the family. What
are they?
Pooling and Allowance
What is the dependency ratio?
The relationship between the working population and non working / dependent population.
What is meant by fictive kin?
Friends that you treat as family.
Who suggested that domestic violence is caused by patriarchy and the need for men to
assert their power over women?
Dobash and Dobash
What is the duel burden?
Domestic Labour and Emotional Support
Which perspective sees the rising divorce rate as meaning that people have
more choice over their lives?
Postmodernism
What is the instrumental role?
The breadwinner and disciplinarian of the family usually the male.
What is meant by a social construct?
Social phenomena that is created and varies from society to society.
Give one reason for the decline in birth rate.
Changing role of women, introduction of contraception, decline in infant mortality
rate, Child centeredness, Children as economic liabilities.
Give one reason for the rise of lone parent families.
Changing role of women, rise of divorce, single by choice, fertility technology
Who is associated with the cultural explanation for the domestic division of
labour.
Gurshuny, Man Yee Kan, Dunne
What is the information hierarchy
The division between adults who can read and children who can’t.
