Main Part Of Sociology

Question 1

Murdock?

Answer 1

Studied 250 different cultures found a form of nuclear family

Question 2

What are the 4 functions of family did Murdock find?

Answer 2

Reproductive
Sexual
Economic
Educational

Question 3

What are the 2 roles of family according to parson?

Answer 3

Primary socialisation

Give emotional support

Question 4

Family before industrialisation?

Answer 4

Extended
Owned means of production
Worked from home

Question 5

Family’s after industrialisation?

Answer 5

Nuclear
Specialised institutions supported family like NHS
Geographical mobile

Question 6

Marxist view on family?

Answer 6

Serves need of capitalism

Promotes values

Question 7

Marcuse

Answer 7

Marxist-family pursue false needs

Question 8

Benston

Answer 8

Marxist feminists-women do unpaid domestic labour keeps men in workforce and women act as “reserve army of labour”

Question 9

What influences state policy?

Answer 9

New right

Question 10

What views do new right have on family?

Answer 10

Traditional

Disagree with contraception, abortion, divorce, homosexuality and lone parents undermine family

Question 11

Who does tax and welfare benefit

Answer 11

Heterosexual married couples

Question 12

Who is Child benefits given to?

Answer 12

Mother which reinforces women should stay at home and look after the kids

Question 13

Birth rate has

Answer 13

Decreased

Question 14

Why has birth rate decreased

Answer 14

1. Decline in infant mortality rate

2. Change in women’s position

Question 15

Why has fertility rate decreased?

Answer 15

1. Reliable birth control

2. Women delay kids

Question 16

What effects has the increase in age population had?

Answer 16

1. Life expectancy
2. Increase in one person household
   Ross et al kids spend more time with grandparents increase in beanpole family’s

Question 17

What do feminists and Postmodernists think about family diversity?

Answer 17

It’s good as it gives more personal choice and rejects patriarchy

Question 18

What do Functionalists and new right think about family diversity

Answer 18

Bad it creates a crisis as increase in anti social behaviour such as crime

Question 19

Wilkinsons view on decline in marriage

Answer 19

It’s a result of gender quake

Question 20

Smiths view on decline in marriage

Answer 20

Feminist it creates unrealistic expectations of monogamy

Question 21

Morgan’s view on decline in marriage

Answer 21

Unique attachment is being lost

Question 22

Is the decline in marriage bad?

Answer 22

1. People aren’t rejecting it there delaying it

2. British social attitudes marriage is still seen as a life goal

Question 23

How many marriages are re marriages

Answer 23

2/5

Question 24

New rights view on cohabitation

Answer 24

Less stable then marriage

Morgan cohabiting couples are less happy Murphy kids are likely to get lower grades

Question 25

Why has there been an increase in divorce rates

Answer 25

More available so less people are committed

Question 26

How many lone parent families are there?

Answer 26

1.7 million

Question 27

New rights view on lone parent families?

Answer 27

Children lack discipline

Question 28

Feminists perspective on new rights view on lone parent

Answer 28

Criticise new right view of lone parenting and familial ideology leads the o negative labelling

Question 29

What’s Willmott and youngs view on power and control in family

Answer 29

Segregated division of labour is breaking down

Question 30

Feminists view on power and control in family

Answer 30

Dryden- out of 17 married couples all women had major responsibility for housework

Question 31

Postmodernists and feminists view on family diversity

Answer 31

It’s a good thing as it creates greater personal choice and reject patriarch

Question 32

What’s the functionalist and new rights view on family diversity

Answer 32

It’s a bad thing it creates a crisis as it lead to an increase in antisocial behaviour

Question 33

What are the three main causes of domestic violence

Answer 33

1. husband’s expectations of womens domestic work
2. possessive and jealous
3. allocation of money

Question 34

Pahl

Answer 34

62% of women that experience violence put up with it for three or more years

Question 35

Dobash and Dobash three reasons why men have the most power

Answer 35

1.History men always have the top positions
Patriarchal society
2.Maynard social workers used to support men’s reasons for violence
3.Early socialisation girlsand more controlled and supervise 12 boys are in courage to be independent

Question 36

Give three reasons of why the position of children have changed

Answer 36

1. Introduction of compulsory education
2. The growth of kids rights
3. Declined in family size and infant mortality rate encouraged parents to make more of a financial and emotional investments

Question 37

What is the march of progress

Answer 37

Children are more valued has better care more protected better education and health more rights and the family and become more child-centred functionalist

Question 38

How do you Marxists and feminists disagree with the functionalist view of March of progress

Answer 38

It doesn’t focus on inequality between children such as class gender and background. kids are also still brought up with a negative background sometimes

Question 39

Conventional approach

Answer 39

Functionalists and new right
Kids of the nerve bullets need to be protected
They need Heterosexual parents

Question 40

Marxist feminism

Answer 40

Exploitation of women is essential for the success of capitalism family cares for the next generation of workers they are basically no cost

Question 41

Radical feminist’s

Answer 41

Exploitation of women in the household is down to the domination of men in society men will always oppress women

Question 42

Liberal feminist

Answer 42

Cook tuna and some values are reinforced by family this is only sexist as it supports mainstream culture