Sociology effects of high divorce rate mind map
Topic 5 Changing family patterns
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- Effects on todays high divorce rate on society and individual family members
- feminists
- feminists argue that married women bear a dual burden; they are required to take on paid work in addition to performing domestic labour in the view of feminists, this has created further conflict
- Feminists see the high divorce rate as desirable because it shows that women are breaking free from the oppression of the patriarchal nuclear family
- The new right
- the new right see a high divorce rate as undesirable because it undermines marriage and the traditional nuclear family, which they regard as vital to social stability
- In their view, a high divorce rate creates a growing underclass of welfare-dependent female boys without the adult male role model they need. They believe it also results in poorer health and educational outcomes for children
- The personal life perspective
- They accept that divorce can cause problems, such as financial difficulties (especially for women) and lack of daily contact between children and non-resident parents.
- Rather than seeing divorce as a major social problem, we should see it as just "one transition amongst others in the life course"
- However , writers from this perspective, such as Carol smart (2011), argue that divorce has become more normalised and that family life can adapt to it without disintegrating.
- Functionalists
- They argue that a high divorce rate is not necessarily a threat to marriage as a social institution. It is simply the result of peoples higher expectation of marriage today
- The high rate of re-marriage shows people continuing commitment to the idea of marriage
- Interactionists
- Aim to understand what divorce means to the induvial, David Morgen (1996) argues that we cant generalise about the meaning of divorce
- left as the best day of her life where as the other says she never recovered from her farther deserting the family
- Mitchell and Goody provide a good example of this. one of their interviewees describes the day her father
- Postmodernist and the individualisation thesis
- Sees a high divorce rate as showing that individuals now have the freedom to choose to end the relationship when it no longer meets their needs.
- They see it as a major cause of greater family diversity
- feminists
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