Family diversity

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Who believes family diveristy has been exaggerated ?
Chester (1985)
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Why does Chester argue family diveristy has been exaggerated?
Most individuals will spend the majority of their lives in a Nuclear family and aso=pire to be in one. So, Family diversity is only a temporary phase.
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Chester argues there has only been one significant change, what is this change?
The change from the traditional, conventional family to the Neo-conventional family (duel earner family)
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Name 2 patterns that support Chesters argument
Cohabitation has increased but it's a temporary phase that leads to marriage and, Births outside of marriage have increased but raised by parents together
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Give an evaluation of Chester
Rappoports (1983) claim we have moved away from tradtional nuclear family as the dominate family type to a ramge of family types
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They had 5 family types, what family type either organise labour eqaully or not
Organizational diversity
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Due to migration what family type is where the majority of ethnic groups have different structures
Cultural diveristy
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What family type is organized differently between classes and income?
Social class diveristy
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What does life-stage diversity mean?
students, young people and elderly will have different structures
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What type is when older and younger generations have different views on divorce etc.?
Generational diversity
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Why does Rapports believe there has been greater diversity?
Migration, changing attitude, changing women's position, social policies
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Late modernity and family diveristy
1980's-onwards. Believe society determines the individual
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What changes do late modernists claim we have seen ?
Dramatic changes to the structure and organization of family life and that were undergoing a huge period of change
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What is the individualsation thesis?
Argues we have lost traditional social structures (class, gender) so have become disembedded from traditional roles. Also, individuals now focus on self rather then family unit.
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Who belives that couples now have greater choice and equality as external forces such as laws or sense of duty no longer define realtionships?
Giddens (1992)
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What is Giddens's pure relationship?
Based on love, happiness, or sexual attraction rather than tradition or duty (staying for the kids)
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Why does Giddens see same-sex couples as pioneers?
Example of relationship based off individual choice and equality and create families to suit their own
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Who believes we are in negotiated families because couples enter relationships on an equal basis but are less stable as negotiating what's best for them?
Beck (1992)
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What's Becks Zombie family?
Families appear stable and secure (alive) but in reality not stable as er live in a risk society (dead)
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How do Smart and May (2013) criticise Late Modernity ?
Exaggerate the choice people have in relationships eg. the individualization thesis ignores that not everyone has the same amount of choice in their relationships because of class inequalities and patriarchal norms
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What is Smarts connected theies that oppses Late modernities view ?
Relationships oftern fored through connectiveness so don't have limited choices. This means there is no pure realtionships becausw there are things you cant walk away from eg. kids
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Beck and Giddens argues that power structures such as class, gender are weakening but who argues against this and what argument do they make?
May (2013) doesn't think power structures are weakening but being reshaped . For example, although women have more rights it doesn't mean they now have it all.
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What do they Critisms from persoanl life persective (May, Smart) tell us about there view on family diversity?
They they belive family diveristy is caused by social structures shaping freedoms
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What does postmodernist such as Cheal argue?
That in postmodern society no longer 1 dominate family type but more family diversity due to choice
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What 3 factors according to postmodernists have caused greater diversity including more LAT's and same sex relationships?
-Incrrased greater choice causeing greater diveristy
-Globalisation
- greater tolerance
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Who argues postmodernism has positively affected women because they have greater choice to pick a family to suit their needs?
Stacey (1998)
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Provide an evalution for the postmoderinst view
Focus too much on atypical causes of diversity and not typical nuclear families eg. Stacey's research was on affluent women in California
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Provide another criticism of postmodernism views?
Ignores social pressures that limit diversity and choice such as religon
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