The Sociology of Families
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- THE FAMILY
- Family Types
- Extended Family
- parents, children & other distant relatives
- Lone parent
- One parent and children
- Reconstituted
- Two adults with children from previous relationship form a new family.
- Same-Sex
- Families headed by a couple of the same sex.
- Beanpole
- Living members come from each generation but a few from each.
- Extended Family
- Types Of Family Diversity
- Organisational
- Different life events has led different families
- Cultural
- Different cultural lifestyles and family types
- Social
- Different social classes of family
- Life-cycle
- Different family members from different historical periods
- Family life
- Different stages and different priorities
- Organisational
- Reasons For Family Diversity
- Legal Changes
- Divorce reform Act 1969
- Made it easier for couples to break up
- Reconstituted
- Lone parent
- Single households
- Made it easier for couples to break up
- Equal Pay Act 1970
- Marriage (**) 2013
- Same-sex couples can marry
- ** families
- Same-sex couples can marry
- Divorce reform Act 1969
- Changes In Social Attitudes
- Less stigma
- Views have changed.
- Cohabit
- Living alone
- **
- Views have changed.
- Less stigma
- Changing Gender Roles
- Working Women
- Women are focused in building a career
- Living alone
- Women are focused in building a career
- Choosing to have babies on their own
- Increased earning power for women
- Lone parent family
- Increased earning power for women
- Working Women
- Longer Life Expectancy
- Increase in life expectancy in UK
- Couples can stay together for years or divorce and remarry
- Reconstituted
- Living alone
- Couples can stay together for years or divorce and remarry
- Increase in life expectancy in UK
- Decline In Religion
- Declining influence of religious beliefs
- Marriage become less scared
- **
- LATS
- Marriage become less scared
- Declining influence of religious beliefs
- Immigration
- People from other countries immigrating to countries like England.
- They bring their traditional family structures with them.
- Extended
- Nuclear
- They bring their traditional family structures with them.
- People from other countries immigrating to countries like England.
- Benefits For Lone Parents
- Goverment provides benefits
- Raising children more a reality
- Makes Decision to divorce and raise children on your own a possibility
- Goverment provides benefits
- Employment Opportunities
- decision not to marry or have children
- Women can have control over their fertility
- decision not to marry or have children
- Legal Changes
- Cereal Packet Family
- Media
- The father goes to work = breadwinner
- Mother stays home to look after children and the home itself.
- The ideal family.
- Characteristics
- Natural children
- Couple are married
- Couple are heterosexual
- The father is the breadwinner
- Chester
- Most will live in a nuclear family at some point.
- Lone parents will marry and make a nuclear family
- Most typical family type
- Barke
- Attacked image of traditional family
- Believes that it ignores diversity in family structures
- Media
- Feminists
- Liberal
- Men & women should be equal in the eyes of the law , work , education & family.
- Working hours do not fit family life
- Change attitudes & Change laws
- Men do not do fair share of housework and childcare
- Marxists
- Capitalism is the problem!
- Oppressive , forces unpaid domestic work.
- Communism is the solution
- Oppressive , forces unpaid domestic work.
- Capitalism is the problem!
- Radical
- Men are the problem!
- Dual burden
- Triple burden
- Set up female only communities
- Matriforal household
- Men are the problem!
- Liberal
- Childhood
- Pre-Industrial
- No childhood
- Children were labelled little adults , they took responsibility.
- Death rates were high
- Children were born to be an asset
- Parents had no time for children ; they did not their morals
- Industrial Age
- Children worked
- High rise in child labour in factories
- Children did not have time for school
- Parents were not willing to let their children work in textile based factories
- Modern
- Society is more child centered
- Working hours have lowered ; parents can spend time with children
- There are laws concerning children
- For most parents, children are their priority
- Pre-Industrial
- Changing Patterns In Marriage
- Expense of marriage
- Cohabiting is a more cheaper option
- Secularisation
- People are now less religious.
- Rising divorce rate
- Many people may choose to separate
- Reduced functions
- Some family institutions have transferred to other institutions , marriage is not that important
- Changing social attitudes
- There is less stigma around living together without marriage
- Changing role of women
- Women are more independent financially & economically
- Expense of marriage
- Domestic Labour
- Joint conjugal roles
- Married couple have flexible roles
- Both are likely to do paid employment: housework is shared
- Segregated conjugal roles
- Partners in married / cohabiting relationship have separated
- Women mainly do the housework ; cooking ,cleaning , childcare
- Joint conjugal roles
- Family Types
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