Who Said It (studies)

Question 1

From 1989 to 1994 the situation has worsened in UK inner city areas. The underclass has increasing social problems

Answer 1

Charles Murray

Question 2

Fatherless children don’t have someone to look up to. Boys don’t know their place in society

Answer 2

Dennis and Erdos

Question 3

As means of production developed, society became more wealthy resulting in private property. From this stemmed the patriarchal nuclear family.

Answer 3

Engles

Question 4

‘World historical defeat of the female sex’ meaning women became an instrument for the production of children

Answer 4

Engles

Question 5

The family being a comfortable place for workers to replenish themselves is an illusion. The family cannot meet all of its members needs

Answer 5

Zaretsky

Question 6

Matrilocal households

Answer 6

Greer

Question 7

Radical fems fail to see the progress made by women.

Answer 7

Somerville

Question 8

Women are the ‘takers of shit’

Answer 8

Fran Ansley

Question 9

Women are used as three things:

1. Mothers
2. Wives
3. Reserve army of labour

Answer 9

Zaretsky

Question 10

A family us a social group characterised by common residence, economic cooperation and reproduction. Parents of opposite gender with a socially approved sexual relationship, living with their own or adopted children

Answer 10

Murdock

Question 11

The nuclear family is the ‘cereal packet’ norm.

Answer 11

Leach

Question 12

The image of the ideal family creates an ideology making other family types feel abnormal and undesirable.

Answer 12

Gittins

Question 13

The definition ‘love parent household’ is clearer then ‘lone parent family’

Answer 13

Crow and Hardy

Question 14

The ruse in unmarried lone mothers is the result of an over generous welfare state

Answer 14

Murray

Question 15

The argument that people choose to be on benefits (perverse incentives argument) is flawed as the standard of living is much lower.

Answer 15

Ford and Millar

Question 16

Single mothers embrace the opportunity to be independent and rake control if their own lives

Answer 16

Graham

Question 17

Reconstituted families have the following problems:

1. Children pulled in two ways
2. Tensions between step parents and children
3. Tension between siblings
4. Pressure on new relationship

Answer 17

De’Ath and Slater

Question 18

Step fathers role uncertain- can he be the disciplinarian?

Answer 18

Bedell

Question 19

Reconstituted families can heal the trauma of the previous break up and offer a successful partnership

Answer 19

Bedell

Question 20

Increased social acceptance of same sex couples has lead to the trend is cohabiting and healthy relationships for same sex couples

Answer 20

Jeffrey Weeks

Question 21

There are distinctive patterns of family life around the UK

Answer 21

Eversley and Bonnerjea

Question 22

Extended families most common in families from India, Bangladesh and Pakistan

Answer 22

Ballard

Question 23

Western influence on romance results in couples involved in arranged marriages having more say

Answer 23

Allan and Crowe

Question 24

The fact that Afro-Caribbean families have the highest number of lone mothers and lowest number of lone fathers may be due to two reasons:

1. Afro Caribbean women’s more likely to be employed then Afro Caribbean men
2. Likely to be supportive kinship network including friends who are referred to as aunts and uncles

Answer 24

Berthoud

Question 25

Confluent love- doesn't last forever

Answer 25

Giddens

Question 26

Risk society- less influenced by tradition, we do what we choose

Answer 26

Beck

Question 27

Liquid love- love if fragile and can move from one person to the next

Answer 27

Bauman

Question 28

No typical family type as we move through different types throughout our lives

Answer 28

Harevan

Question 29

Childhood is seen as a period of separateness from adulthood

Answer 29

Pilcher

Question 30

Functional fit

Answer 30

Parsons

Question 31

No single childhood experienced by all young people around the world meaning childhood cannot be biological

Answer 31

Wagg

Question 32

Children in Bolivia are expected to take work responsibilities from the age of five

Answer 32

Punch

Question 33

Non- Industrial cultures have less of a dividing line between children and adults therefore childhood must be socially constructed (differs from culture to culture)

Answer 33

Benedict

Question 34

Childhood is a recent invention due to industrialisation

Answer 34

Aries

Question 35

Believe childhood is better now (believe in March of progress) - compare the past to the present

Answer 35

Aries and shorter

Question 36

Gender differences between children: boys are allowed more freedom

Answer 36

Hillman

Question 37

Ethnic differences between children- Asian parents strict to daughters

Answer 37

Brannen

Question 38

Children should live free from adults who oppress them (child liberationism)

Answer 38

Shulasmith Firestone

Question 39

The 'new man' is more sensitive and gets involved with emotion work- more likely to share conjugal roles

Answer 39

Breen and Cooke

Question 40

Women going to work and men helping with household chores has lead to a more symmetrical family

Answer 40

Young and Willmott

Question 41

Women who work full time leads to a more equal division of labour in the home. Women not working do 84% Women working do 73%

Answer 41

Gershuny

Question 42

The commercialisation of housework- expensive household products that do the chores for you

Answer 42

Silver

Question 43

Young and Willmott are wrong- they said men only had to do one job a week for it to be equal

Answer 43

Anne Oakley

Question 44

Asked 40 women with one or more child under five about housework and found that they did most of the housework Men also expected a lot of praise when they helped , and were selective with what they did

Answer 44

Anne Oakley

Question 45

Dual burden

Answer 45

Ferri

Question 46

Men don't do the same amount of housework and tend to do it less well when they do Jobs women do are more monotonous e.g cleaning

Answer 46

McMahon

Question 47

Interviewed 40 couples and found women complained about men's emotions distance Men's saw their main role as breadwinner

Answer 47

Duncombe and Marsden

Question 48

Prioritise partners and children's tastes when it came to cooking meals

Answer 48

Charles and Kerr

Question 49

``` Most important decisions made by men: work, having children, buying a house etc. Important made by both: holidays, where children go to school etc Less important made by women: food shopping, clothes etc This interview was carried out with 38 middle class couples ```

Answer 49

Edgell

Question 50

Men saw abuse as physical, women's aw it as a wider range of harm, eg verbal and mental

Answer 50

Sclater

Question 51

One incident of domestic a use reported to police every minute in the UK Definitely an under estimation as many cases aren't reported

Answer 51

Stanko

Question 52

Abuse due to husbands feeling their authority has been challenged

Answer 52

Dobash and Dobash

Question 53

Domestic violence is the result of stress on the family caused by class inequality

Answer 53

Wilkinson/ Fran Ansley

Question 54

Higher divorce rates show that people value marriage more as they want to preserve the goodness of marriage therefore end bad ones. Remarry into happier relationships

Answer 54

Fletcher

Question 55

Work is more desirable for women than 'home' as paid work is more rewarding than housework.

Answer 55

Hochschild

Question 56

Women are more economically independent therefore more willing to end unhappy marriages

Answer 56

Crow

Question 57

Cannot generalise about divorce as all experiences are different

Answer 57

Morgan