Sociology Families and Households

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Levin 2004
Identified LATS- The rising number of these relationships reflect the growing way in which concept of family and definitions of family norms are challenged by personal living arrangements
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Duncan and Phillips 2010
Found LATS are increasingly understood and accepted by the wider public as an alternative to marriage and commitment
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Haskey 2005
Estimated that there were 2 million couples in Britain in LATS (2002-2003)
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What did Murray (1989) and Marsland (1989) argue? ( REGARDING THE NEW RIGHT)
That the welfare state has undermined personal responsibility and self-help, and importance of support from families
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What did Engels (1800's) believe about the nuclear family?
That the monogamous nuclear family developed as a means of passing on private property to heirs. Woman provided sex in return for the economic security her husband offered
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Chambers 2012
Points out that individualisation has been a central explanation for key changes in ideas about love commitment and family decline and for the development of new kinds of personal relationships
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Beck Gernsheim 2002 ( individualisation thesis)
underlying causes of individualisation line development in modern medicine contraception and artificial insemination & that the growth of individualisation has meant that it is no longer clear who or what is part of the family
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Allen 2011
pointed out that life in a step family can be very complicated
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E.Bott (1957)
Joint & segregated conjugal roles- Segregated= breadwinner and housewife. Joint= couple shares housework and childcare- this is an egalitarian relationship
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Willmott and Young 1973
Claimed that the husband and wife were contributing equally to the family
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Gershuny 1994
Agreed with Willmott and Young, found that overall there was little difference in the time spent by men and women in paid and unpaid work
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Ann Oakley
Rejected the idea of the 'symmetrical family' - found that 15% of men had a high level of participation in housework & that 25% of men had a high level of participation in childcare
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What was wrong with Ann Oakley's research?
Only 40 married women made up this research- unrepresentable
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Dunne 1999 - same sex relationships
In lesbian relationships there was equal responsibility with childcare, 4 out of 5 households neither partner did more than 60% of the housework
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Edgell (1980) DECISION MAKING
The men would make the more important decisions, such as moving house whereas the woman would make the least important decisions such as the childs clothes
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Pahl (1989)
Men control finance
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Bright Grey/Opinium Research Survey 2011
Found that 59% of married couples consult each other on all financial decisions
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Stanko, 2000 - Domestic violence
One incident is reported to the police every minute
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Walby and Allen, 2004- Domestic violence
In any one year, there are 13 million separate incidents of physical violence or threats of violence against women from partners or former partners
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Dobash and Dobash- violence against housewives research
Argued that domestic violence (male to female) existed because society was patriarchal
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Townsend et al 2003
a third of the worlds children live in absolute poverty and 134 million of children aged 7-18 have never been to school
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Postman 1994- Death of childhood
Children are growing up too quickly and losing their innocence and they can easily access adult material
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Cambridge university 2007
Found that primary school children were expressing concerns about adult issues such as global warming, terrorism and crime
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