Practice questions - The Family

Question 1

Describe family structures in modern Britain. [10]

Answer 1

Credit:
 Accurate use of sociological language, concepts and theory, if relevant.
 Reference to clear understanding of traditional nuclear family.
 Evidence of examples, perhaps drawn from the media or current affairs, such as moral panics about the behaviour of children.

Family Structure in Britain was traditionally composed around the Nuclear or Cereal Packet Family. This is a heterosexual couple and their dependent children living together as a family unit. Functionalist sociologists believe society cannot function with families and Talcott Parsons a Functionalist sociologist suggest that the nuclear family offers the best model for primary socialisation of parents and children and both a male are female role model are present. In modern times