Personal life

Question 1

Levin

Answer 1

Strong social norms prescribing that this was the way to live

Question 2

Individualisation thesis

Answer 2

Chambers- Love, commitment family decline and for the development of new kinds of personal relationships

Question 3

Confluent love

Answer 3

Beck-Gernsheim
Love rather than economic necessity guides peoples approaches to relationships

Question 4

Criticisms of confluent love

Answer 4

Smart- exaggerates the extent of family decline
Chambers- doesn’t mean that people are free to do whatever they want

Question 5

The connectedness theory

Answer 5

Smart- social beings whose choice is always made within a web of connectedness

Question 6

Divorce statistics

Answer 6

-2012 had 130,000 divorce rate
-2012 was 2 divorces in every 4 marriages
-Changes in the law has made divorce easier nowadays
-Role of women
-Rising expectations of marriage

Question 7

LATs (Living Apart Together)

Answer 7

Levin
Long term relationship but choose to live separately

Question 8

Lone parenthood

Answer 8

-Britain has highest in Europe
-Tripled since 1971

Question 9

Adult kids

Answer 9

Heath
Less likely to follow traditional route of living at home

Question 10

Giddens

Answer 10

Sees same sex couples as leading the way in producing more democratic and equal relationships

Question 11

Reasons for the increase in the divorce rate

Answer 11

-Changes in the law which have gradually made divorce easier
-Changes in society which have made divorce a more practical and socially acceptable way of terminating a broken marriage

Question 12

What do the new right sat about the meaning of high divorce

Answer 12

Undesirable as it undermines marriage amd the nuclear family

Question 13

What do functionalists say about the meaning of high divorce

Answer 13

Not necessarily a threat to marriage as a social institution

Question 13

Decline of divorce

Answer 13

Since 2000 % of marriages ending in divorce appears to be falling because of the age at which people are now getting married

Question 14

What do feminists say about the meaning of high divorce rates

Answer 14

Desirable as it shows women are breaking free from the oppression

Question 15

Statistics about cohabitation

Answer 15

-The estimated number of people cohabitating doubled between 1996-2012
-By 2000’s, 80% couples in first marriages had cohabitated beforehand compared to 2% in the 1950’s

Question 16

Reasons for the growth of cohabitation

Answer 16

-Changing role of women
-Reduced functions of the family
-Changing social attitudes
-Rising divorce rate
-Reducing risk

Question 17

Reasons for more lone parent families

Answer 17

-Greater economic independence
-Improved contraception
-Reproductive technology
-Changing social attitudes

Question 18

Promiscuous parasites

Answer 18

Portrayed non married mothers as promiscuous parasites because of the media

Question 19

When was the child support agency

Answer 19

1993

Question 20

Beanpole families

Answer 20

Declining numbers of children in each generation and greater life expectancy meant that the family tree is thinner and less bushy

Question 21

Heath (2004)

Answer 21

Young people are more less likely to follow the traditional route of living at home