Factors Affecting Divorce
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- Created on: 21-10-15 16:28
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- Changes in the Law
- 1969/71 - Divorce Law Reform Act
- Evaluate sociological contributions to our understanding of the trends in divorce in the UK since 1970
- Declining Stigma, Changing Attitudes and Secularisation
- 1960s - churches condemned divroce
- Churches started to soften views
- Mitchell and Goody - declinging stigma = divorce more socially acceptable
- However, ethnic minorities aren't secular, they may not divorce
- 1960s - churches condemned divroce
- The Rising Expectations of Marriage
- Used to be about business, now love
- Fletcher - marriage isn't what people expect = divorce
- Allan and Crow - things aren't going perfectly = justify ending marriage
- However, some ethnic minorities don't have a choice on marriage
- Women's Increased Financial Independence
- Delaying/ having less children
- Still working and earning money
- Girls are doing better than boys at school
- Decline of 'men's jobs' and increase in services
- Allan and Crow - marriage isn't embedded in economic system
- Spouses aren't dependent on eachother
- However, wages aren't fully equal, which is limiting but improving
- Delaying/ having less children
- Modernity and Individualisation
- People being less motivated to work at marriage
- Socially acceptable
- Individualisation - people investing in themselves rather than marriage
- Marriage cant satisfy interests = divorce
- Rejection of traditional relationships in pursuit of individual interests
- People being less motivated to work at marriage
- Feminist Explanations
- Women doing paid + house work = conflict = divorce
- Hochschild - both partners working = less emotional work = divorce
- Sigle-Rushton - paid and domestic women = divorce
- Cook and Gash - no evidence of this = norm
- Patriarchal = men benefit from wives
- Bernard - women accept feminist ideas + reject patriarchal ideas = rising divorce rate
- Declining Stigma, Changing Attitudes and Secularisation
- However, societal factors limit this
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