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Family Sociologists and their studies

Question 1 of 16

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What year did Talcott Parsons publish his research?

Select one of the following:

  • 1950

  • 1955

  • 1960

  • 1965

Explanation

Question 2 of 16

1

What were some of the points Parson made?

Select one or more of the following:

  • The family has a fuctional 'fit' in society

  • The pre-industrial society was a nuclear family

  • The family performs 4 functions

  • The family performs 2 functions

  • Joint conjugal roles are a growing trend

  • There is a clear division in domestic labour

  • His work was published before Murdock

  • His work was published after Murdock

  • The wife plays the expressive role and husband instrumental role

  • Women working means they play the dual burden role

Explanation

Question 3 of 16

1

Who distingues between joint conjugal roles and segregated conjugal roles?

Select one of the following:

  • Willmott and Young

  • Anne Oakely

  • Elizabeth Bott

  • Peter Murdock

Explanation

Question 4 of 16

1

Why did Anne Oakley criticise Young and Willmott's research?

Select one of the following:

  • They ignore family diversity

  • Although men do housework, it wasn't symmetrical

  • They ignore patriarchy and that men still oppress women

  • fewer than 20% of husbands had a role in childcare

Explanation

Question 5 of 16

1

Fill in the gaps- the future foundations study ( A ) found that B% of men claimed to do more C% than their fathers, while D% of women claimed to do less B than their mothers.

Select one of the following:

  • A- 1990 B- 60% C- childcare D- 75%

  • A- 2001 B-75% C- housework D- 60%

  • A-2000 B- 60% C- housework D- 75%

  • A-2000 B- 60% C- childcare D- 70%

Explanation

Question 6 of 16

1

Who distinguishes the notions between childhood in the middle ages and today?

Select one of the following:

  • Neil Postman

  • Jane Pilcher

  • Phillip Aries

  • Linda Pollock

Explanation

Question 7 of 16

1

2 functionalists who think the families perform functions

Select one of the following:

  • Parsons and Talcott

  • Murdock and Parsons

  • Zaretsky and Engles

  • Greer and Ansley

Explanation

Question 8 of 16

1

2 Marxists who believe the family only benefits the ruling class

Select one of the following:

  • Talcott and Zaretsky

  • Engles and Monogamy

  • Greer and Zaretsky

  • Zaretsky and Engles

Explanation

Question 9 of 16

1

Peter townsend (1981) said-

Select one of the following:

  • Problems in society lay in the esculating costs of health and social care for the elderly

  • Old age has beeen socially constructed as a period of dependency by creating age of retirement

  • We need to reverse the current trend towards earlier retirement

Explanation

Question 10 of 16

1

who said- Love and personal commitment are the most important things in a marriage -

Select one of the following:

  • Wreeks

  • Allan and Crow

  • Mitchell and Goody

  • Tracey Reynolds

Explanation

Question 11 of 16

1

Who did Tracey Reynolds say still had role models without the presence of a father?

Select one of the following:

  • Black extended families

  • White single parent families

  • The nuclear family

  • Black single parent families

Explanation

Question 12 of 16

1

"The growth of single parent families is a result of over generous welfare benefits"

Select one of the following:

  • Charles Murray

  • Willmott and Young

  • Chester

  • Stacey

Explanation

Question 13 of 16

1

Who uses the life course analysis?

Select one of the following:

  • Rapport and Rapport

  • Stacey

  • Hareven

  • Chester

Explanation

Question 14 of 16

1

The life course analysis is....

Select one of the following:

  • The life of reproducing families is fixed and predictable

  • Family life isn't fixed and is flexible based on an individuals decisions

  • The life course is determined by the decisions of the individuals parents

  • The family is flexible but also predictable

Explanation

Question 15 of 16

1

Hilary Land (1978)

Select one of the following:

  • Secularisation

  • The patriarchal family is no longer dominant, we have choice

  • Social policies assume the ideal family is the most dominant

  • See's social policies as the state controlling family

Explanation

Question 16 of 16

1

Donzelot argues social policy is a form of state control

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

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