Family diversity
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- Created on: 01-06-22 13:12
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- Family diversity
- Views of the nuclear family
- Functionalist:nuclear is the best family type and is essential. Other family types are not as good because they cannot perform vital functions
- Feminists: nuclear family acts to uphold patriarchy
- New right: nuclear family is the only correct family type and all others are harmful to society as they promote social issues
- Disagree with cohabitation
- Marxists: nuclear family acts to uphold class inequality
- The neo-conventional family - Chester
- Nuclear family is still seen as the ideal but due to life cycle people may not always be in a nuclear family
- They have been in the past or will be in the future
- Characterisedby dual earner household
- Nuclear family is still seen as the ideal but due to life cycle people may not always be in a nuclear family
- The Rapoports and family diversity
- Social class diversity: differences due to income and social class
- E.g needing to live in a beanpole/extended family due to inability to afford childcare or a place of their own
- Generational diversity: differences due to changing attitudes towards family types
- E.g young more likely to be same-sex or divorce due to decreasing stigma
- Cultural diversity: differences dependent on religion, culture or ethnicity
- E.g Black Caribbeans living more in lone-parent; Asian living more in extended
- Life stage diversity: differences based on the stage of life an individual is in
- E.g widow likely to live in one-person household/ single-parent due to death of husband
- Organisational diversity: differences in the way roles are organised
- E.g dual earner and joint CR vs lone earner and segregated CR
- Social class diversity: differences due to income and social class
- Post-modern families
- Individualisation thesis (Beck and Giddens)
- Traditional structures of class gender and ethnicity have lost so much influence and now family types are chosen based on one’s own desires
- We are now ‘disembedded’ from the traditional roles
- Traditional structures of class gender and ethnicity have lost so much influence and now family types are chosen based on one’s own desires
- The pure relationship
- Giddens argued that the pure relationship is achieved when the needs of each partner are satisfied by the other
- When this does not occur/stops occurring, the relationship ends
- Stacey
- Matriarchal households are more common - women are now more in charge, control changes and reject the housewife role
- ‘Divorce extended family’ is a new structure in which a divorcee remains in contact with the ex’s family
- The connectedness thesis
- We live within a web of relationships and personal histories which are influencing of our family types and future relationships
- Individualisation thesis (Beck and Giddens)
- The personal life perspective of families
- Families and family diversity cannot be generalised due to the very individual nature of a family type. This can change both in and across social groups
- E.g some black families may be lone parent, other amy be extended due to their social class
- Families and family diversity cannot be generalised due to the very individual nature of a family type. This can change both in and across social groups
- Views of the nuclear family
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