Family Diversity
Everything you need to know about family diversity.
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- Created on: 21-04-13 20:38
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- Family Diversity
- structural diversity
- Extended Family
- Modified extended/dispersed nuclear fam-keep in touch via technology
- Increased role of grandparents in modern uk.
- CHARLES-contact remains high between mum and daughter. sharpe decline in sibling contact.
- Modified extended/dispersed nuclear fam-keep in touch via technology
- Lone Parents
- One parent, dependant child. 1 IN 4 CHILDREN BY AGE OF 5 LIVE WITH 1 PARENT.
- 2006: 96% LONE PARNTS HEADED BY WOMEN.
- Reconstituted Families
- Married or Cohabating couples with dependant children. with at least one child not biological child of both partners.
- Divorce extended family. STACY
- Gay and Lesbian
- THE LANCETT (2002) 5% of adults have a same sex realationship.
- Same sex realtionships legalised 1969
- WEEKS (1999) Incresed acceptance of homsexuality led to more stable long term realtionships within this group.
- Civil partnership legal in uk 2004. Adoption 2002
- One Person Housholds
- Big rise in people living alone. BERHTOUD AND GERSHUNNY (2000) 1 in 10 people living alone in 2000
- Female pensioners,male divorcies, decline in those marrying.
- Cohabiting Couples
- Doubled ince 1996 and 25-34 yr olds more likely to cohabit
- Extended Family
- Cultural Diversity
- Social Class
- Raporports: Highlighted difference between working and middle class fams
- CULTURAL CAPITAL: general knowlege of world, politic,food,art,literature,etc
- Deferred Gratification and immediate gratification
- regional
- Eversley and Bonerjea- distinctive patterns of fam life in uk- eg, more old people live by sea. villages nuclear fams, lon parents inner cities and council houses
- Ethnic
- Ballard (1982) extended fams more common amongst south asian fams-respect for elderly more likely to look aftr them
- INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC RESEARCH (2000) highest rtes of marriage amongst asian women.also lowest rates of divorce. 3/4 married before 25-arranged marriages. also religion= not working having children and commiting to morals.
- AFRICAN CARIBBEAN FAMS: SOCIAL TRENDS 2001: 48% of A-C fams were more lone parents headed by mother
- African Caribbean highest number of lone mums and highest divorce rate
- Berthoud (2003) MODERN INDIVIDUALISM. a-c women less dependent on men-see as economic burden, not help. also have extened support networks to rely on. also more likely to be employed htan A-C men
- Social Class
- Post Modernity and family diversity
- GIDDENS:CONFLUENT LOVE. we have unrealistic ecpectations of relationships from media. leads to breakdown. increasedchoice and diversity
- 'LATE MODERNITY'- charicterised by chice and change-explains incrased fam divesity,however it possible exagerates freedom of choice in fam unit
- BECK-RISK SOCIETY AND NEGOTIATED FAMILY (1992)
- Post modern era characterised by increasedchoice and risk taking. traditionless influential.enter fams we negotiate, if this chnages individuals feel justifiedin leaving famm unit. LESS PATRIARCHAL
- STACY-DIVORCE EXTENDED FAM
- Study of silicon Vally, california, showed how many fams linked through divorce not marriage
- CHESTER-NEO CONVENTIONAL NUCLEAR FAMILY
- HAREVAN-LIFE COURSE ANALYSIS
- Interactionalists looking at interactions of individuals and small groups - only way to understand fam is by looking at individuals view of what it is.
- GIDDENS:CONFLUENT LOVE. we have unrealistic ecpectations of relationships from media. leads to breakdown. increasedchoice and diversity
- structural diversity
- Beanpole Family
- structural diversity
- Extended Family
- Modified extended/dispersed nuclear fam-keep in touch via technology
- Increased role of grandparents in modern uk.
- CHARLES-contact remains high between mum and daughter. sharpe decline in sibling contact.
- Modified extended/dispersed nuclear fam-keep in touch via technology
- Lone Parents
- One parent, dependant child. 1 IN 4 CHILDREN BY AGE OF 5 LIVE WITH 1 PARENT.
- 2006: 96% LONE PARNTS HEADED BY WOMEN.
- Reconstituted Families
- Married or Cohabating couples with dependant children. with at least one child not biological child of both partners.
- Divorce extended family. STACY
- Gay and Lesbian
- THE LANCETT (2002) 5% of adults have a same sex realationship.
- Same sex realtionships legalised 1969
- WEEKS (1999) Incresed acceptance of homsexuality led to more stable long term realtionships within this group.
- Civil partnership legal in uk 2004. Adoption 2002
- One Person Housholds
- Big rise in people living alone. BERHTOUD AND GERSHUNNY (2000) 1 in 10 people living alone in 2000
- Female pensioners,male divorcies, decline in those marrying.
- Cohabiting Couples
- Doubled ince 1996 and 25-34 yr olds more likely to cohabit
- Extended Family
- structural diversity
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