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Who Said It (studies) Flashcards

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

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Charles Murray

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

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Dennis and Erdos

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

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Engles

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

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Engles

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

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Zaretsky

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6
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Matrilocal households

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Greer

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Radical fems fail to see the progress made by women.

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Somerville

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8
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Women are the ‘takers of shit’

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Fran Ansley

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9
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Women are used as three things:

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

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10
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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

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Murdock

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11
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The nuclear family is the ‘cereal packet’ norm.

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Leach

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12
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The image of the ideal family creates an ideology making other family types feel abnormal and undesirable.

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Gittins

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13
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The definition ‘love parent household’ is clearer then ‘lone parent family’

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Crow and Hardy

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

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Murray

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15
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The argument that people choose to be on benefits (perverse incentives argument) is flawed as the standard of living is much lower.

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Ford and Millar

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16
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Single mothers embrace the opportunity to be independent and rake control if their own lives

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Graham

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17
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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
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De’Ath and Slater

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18
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Step fathers role uncertain- can he be the disciplinarian?

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Bedell

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19
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Reconstituted families can heal the trauma of the previous break up and offer a successful partnership

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Bedell

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

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Jeffrey Weeks

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21
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There are distinctive patterns of family life around the UK

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Eversley and Bonnerjea

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22
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Extended families most common in families from India, Bangladesh and Pakistan

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Ballard

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23
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Western influence on romance results in couples involved in arranged marriages having more say

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Allan and Crowe

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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
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Berthoud

25
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Confluent love- doesn’t last forever

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Giddens

26
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Risk society- less influenced by tradition, we do what we choose

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Beck

27
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Liquid love- love if fragile and can move from one person to the next

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Bauman

28
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No typical family type as we move through different types throughout our lives

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Harevan

29
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Childhood is seen as a period of separateness from adulthood

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Pilcher

30
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Functional fit

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Parsons

31
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No single childhood experienced by all young people around the world meaning childhood cannot be biological

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Wagg

32
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Children in Bolivia are expected to take work responsibilities from the age of five

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Punch

33
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Non- Industrial cultures have less of a dividing line between children and adults therefore childhood must be socially constructed (differs from culture to culture)

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Benedict

34
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Childhood is a recent invention due to industrialisation

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Aries

35
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Believe childhood is better now (believe in March of progress) - compare the past to the present

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Aries and shorter

36
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Gender differences between children: boys are allowed more freedom

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Hillman

37
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Ethnic differences between children- Asian parents strict to daughters

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Brannen

38
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Children should live free from adults who oppress them (child liberationism)

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Shulasmith Firestone

39
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The ‘new man’ is more sensitive and gets involved with emotion work- more likely to share conjugal roles

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Breen and Cooke

40
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Women going to work and men helping with household chores has lead to a more symmetrical family

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Young and Willmott

41
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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%

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Gershuny

42
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The commercialisation of housework- expensive household products that do the chores for you

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Silver

43
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Young and Willmott are wrong- they said men only had to do one job a week for it to be equal

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Anne Oakley

44
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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

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Anne Oakley

45
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Dual burden

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Ferri

46
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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

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McMahon

47
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Interviewed 40 couples and found women complained about men’s emotions distance
Men’s saw their main role as breadwinner

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Duncombe and Marsden

48
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Prioritise partners and children’s tastes when it came to cooking meals

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Charles and Kerr

49
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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
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Edgell

50
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Men saw abuse as physical, women’s aw it as a wider range of harm, eg verbal and mental

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Sclater

51
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One incident of domestic a use reported to police every minute in the UK
Definitely an under estimation as many cases aren’t reported

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Stanko

52
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Abuse due to husbands feeling their authority has been challenged

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Dobash and Dobash

53
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Domestic violence is the result of stress on the family caused by class inequality

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Wilkinson/ Fran Ansley

54
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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

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Fletcher

55
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Work is more desirable for women than ‘home’ as paid work is more rewarding than housework.

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Hochschild

56
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Women are more economically independent therefore more willing to end unhappy marriages

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Crow

57
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Cannot generalise about divorce as all experiences are different

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Morgan

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