Family Diversity

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  • Created on: 20-12-21 20:09
what 2 main factors increased diversity?
-secularisation
-legal changes
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what sociologist talks about the pure relationship and what does this lead to?
Giddens talks about this and he says that increase in gender equality causes serial monogamy due to looking for a good relationship.
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give examples(that you couldn't remember) of new family diversity
symmetrical, househusband in nuclear, vertical-all generations/horizontal-aunts uncles, living apart together- fam where couple don't live together, singledom, housemates, empty nest fam- children left parents, boomerang- children who go and come back
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which sociologist argued for traditional nuclear families?
parsons
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which sociologists argued for the symmetrical family?
wilmott and young
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which sociologist argued for matrifocal lone parent families?
Murray suggests there's no male role model so the children aren't socialised properly, making them dependent on the welfare system and causing their children to be socialised inadequat
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which sociologist argued for why the modern family is now diverse?
rapport and rapport
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what 5 diversities did they come up with?
organisational diversity- organised in a way fam benefits, cultural diversity- diff ethnicities in the uk so diff diversity, social class diversity- divorces more common in wc so it can influence it, life stage diversity- diff experiences through life,
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generational diversity- different attitudes to family diversity
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what other perspectives were there and what did they say (include sociologist)?
post modernists- think its a positive feature and that it gives instability to contemporary society
new right- think its negative and that the traditional family is better (Murray)
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name an evaluation from the last perspective
Phillips- after the 2011 riot from lone parents families, she thought no traditional values causes children who are brought up 'incorrectly' to blame others and follow the same values.
-not all families that were there were lone-headed(nuclear)
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name evaluations of family diversity
-Chester said most families, no matter what example they were, followed the nuclear family structure/ Neo-conventional families.
-2017 statistics showed that the civil partner couple was the fastest growing coupler, supporting Chester.
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what sociologist talks about the pure relationship and what does this lead to?

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Giddens talks about this and he says that increase in gender equality causes serial monogamy due to looking for a good relationship.

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give examples(that you couldn't remember) of new family diversity

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which sociologist argued for traditional nuclear families?

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which sociologists argued for the symmetrical family?

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