What is the high rate of female-headed, lone-parent black families evidence of?
Evidence of family disorganisation that can be traced back to slavery, or more recently, to high rates of unemployment around black men.
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What does Mirza suggest the high rate of lone-parent black families reflects?
Reflects the high value that black women have in society
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What does Parsons suggest was the dominant family type in pre-industrial society?
Extended family
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What is the dominant family type in modern society?
Nuclear Family
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What did Chamberlain find about Black Caribbean families in Britain?
Although they are seperated, they continue to support eachother and have a large contribution to childbearing.
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What did Chamerberlain call large families that live seperately but that continue to support eachother?
multiple nuclear families
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What did Wilmott argue about the ‘dissaperance’ of the extended family?
Its not dissaperaing, but in fact continuing as a “dispersed extended family”. Where they live seperately but stay in contact.
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What did Bell suggest about emotional bonds in both middle-class and working-class families?
Emotional bonds between kin, and reliance on eachother for support. Present in both family types
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What does Cheal suggest about the responsibility of caring for an elderly woman?
If the husband is unable to crae for elderly woman and do housework, then its the daughters obligation to.... son is rarely chosen to.
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What is a bean pole family?
Extended vertically - 3 or more generations. Does not involve horizontal extensiuons, such as aunts and uncles.
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Within a bean pole family, where are the highest levels of support and contact?
Between mothers and adult daughters.
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Within a bean pole family, where are the lowesrt levels of support and contact?
Between brother and sister.
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Why is there a high amount of bean pole families?
Increased life expectancy means more grandparents are surviving for longer. Smaller family sizes, means each family has fewer siblings and therfore less horizontal connections.
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Whats the difference between a beanpole family and an extended family?
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