Changes in the Family (Topic 2)
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- Changes in the family
- Allan and Crow: up the 60s there was a standard life course for most individuals.
- Levin: this life course was in effect "compulsory" as there were strong social norms.
- Both make the conclusion that the contemporary family have seen major changes that have caused the traditional family to fade.
- Both make the conclusion that the contemporary family have seen major changes that have caused the traditional family to fade.
- Levin: this life course was in effect "compulsory" as there were strong social norms.
- Individualisat-ion thesis
- Chambers: individulaisation has been key to the change in ideas about love, relationships, family decline etc.
- Found in the works of Beck and Giddens.
- Refers to the process whereby traditional social relationships, roles and beliefs lose their influence over the lives of individuals.
- Smart: thesis exaggerates the extent of family decline. People have not been 'cut free' from social pressures.
- Pure Relationships
- Beck: Landscape of love is changing. A refusal of lifelong plans and permanent ties.
- Giddens: move away from romantic love to confluent love (Active and conditional love)
- Divorce
- Reasons for the increase in divorce rate:
- changes in the law; gradually made divorce easier and cheaper.
- Given men and women equal rights in divorce.
- Divorce Reform Act (1969)
- changes in societ; divorce is more practical and less stigma is attached to it.
- Role of women
- Secularisation
- Privatisation of the family
- Availability of contraception
- Welfare support for lone parents.
- Rising expectation of marriage.
- changes in the law; gradually made divorce easier and cheaper.
- Reasons for the increase in divorce rate:
- Growth of Cohabitation
- Changing role of women has been economic independence gives them freedom to support themselves unmarries.
- Reduced stigma
- Growth of LATs
- Way of dealing with fall-out from broken relationships.
- Individualisation thesis
- Growth of Lone Parent Families
- Economic independence of women
- Changing social attitudes.
- Cultural Diversity
- (Berthoud) Caribbean: High levels of lone parenthood, Combination of low rates of partnership and marriage being unimportant to self-image.
- (Ballard) South Asian: Extended family more common, 'old-fashioned values'. Arranged marriages unites two families. The British 'cereal-packet' family can be found in these families.
- Growth of singlehood
- Decline in marriage, rise in divorce and delay of marriage.
- Women's independence, putting a career before relationships.
- Geographical Mobility.
- Less stigma
- Rejection of relationships
- Decrease in death rates means pensioners are living longer and will live beyond a partner's life.
- Allan and Crow: up the 60s there was a standard life course for most individuals.
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