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What is a household?
What is a nuclear family?
What is an vertically extended family?
What is a horizontally extended family family?
What is a lone-parent family?
What is a reconstituted family?
What is an empty nest family?
How do functionalists believe society works?
What is the organic analogy?
What four functions does the Functionalist George Murdock (1949) argue the family performs?
What did Murdock find after studying 250 societies?
What are some criticisms of Murdock?
What is the 'functional fit' theory from Functionalist Talcott Parsons (1955)?
Why does the extended family suit a pre-industrial society?
Why does the nuclear family suit modern industrial society?
What does Parsons believe the two essential functions are?
What is the warm bath theory?
Criticisms of Parsons?
How do Marxist sociologists see society?
What is false consciousness?
How Marxists see institutions in society?
How do Marxists see the family?
Name three ways the family benefits capitalism?
How does Zaretsky (1976) believe the family offers a haven that benefits capitalism?
Criticisms of Marxism?
Strengths of Marxism?
What is a liberal feminist?
What is a radical feminist?
What is a Marxist feminist?
What is patriarchy?
What year did women get the right to vote?
How did the birth control pill (1966) give women control?
What group of politicians typically uphold the New Right view?
What do the New Right believe is the main reason for societies problems?
How is the single parent family a problem for society?
How does the New Right believe SPF are encouraged?
In a nuclear family who is the instrumental leader and who is the expressive leader?
How do the New Right view cohabitation and divorce?
How do they view working women?
What are criticisms of New Right view?
What do postmodern thinkers believe about the family?
What is a postmodern era (key concepts)?
How have those concepts changed family life?
What is the personal life perspective?
How does the personal life perspective differ from functionalism, marxism and feminism?
'Bottom up' approach in more detail....
What did sociologists Nordqvist and Smart find?
Who were the first sociologists to identify a range of family diversty
What 5 types of family diversity did they find in Britain?
What is organisational and structural diversity?
What is cultural diversity?
What are trends in an Asian British family?
What are the trends in an afro-caribbean family loving in England?
What is class diversity?
What is life-course diversity?
What is generational diversity?
What des Robert Chester (1985) believe about family diversity?
What is a neo-conventional family?
When did divorce rates peak?
What percent of marriages end in divorce?
What types of marriages are more likely to end in divorce?
What are 3 changes that have happened to divorce laws making it easier to obtain?
What are other options to divorce?
Why have divorce rates increased?
How do feminists view divorce?
How do the New Right view divorce?
How do functionalists view divorce?
How do Postmodernists view divorce?
How do interactionists view divorce?
How does the personal life perspective view divorce?
What are four important trends of marriage in recent years?
What are reasons for these trends?
How have attitudes to marriage changed?
How has secularisation had an impact on marriage?
What are alternatives to marriage?
How has the position of women in society changed and how has this affected marriage trends?
What is cohabitation?
How many couple cohabit?
What are reasons for the increase in cohabitation?
What percent of cohabiting couples get married?
How have same sex couples been treated more equally in the law?
Trends of one person households?
How does the new right view cohabitation and marriage?
How do feminists view cohabitation and marriage?
What are conjugal roles?
What are segregated conjugal roles?
What are joint conjugal roles?
How can the division of labour be split?
What is a dual burden?
What is a triple shift?
In a heterosexual relationship which person does the most childcare?
Which gender does more of the decision making?
What are the two approaches to financial matters found by Pahl and Volger (1993)?
How have these financial approaches changed?
How have feminists changed the division of labour?
What generation are more likely to have an equal division of labour?
How is divison of labour split in same sex couples?
Why is domestic abuse difficult to define?
What are the trends of domestic abuse?
Why is domestic violence difficult to document how common?
How has Mirlees Black estimated domestic violence?
What do radical feminists believe causes domestic abuse?
What are social policies?
Why are social policies important?
How do functionalists view social policy?
How do the New Right view social policy?
How do feminists view social policy?
How do Marxists view social policy?
Identify a social policy that affects marriage?
Identify two social policies that affects children?
What is demography?
What 3 things cause a change in population?
What has caused an increase in life expectancy?
What has changed the age women have children (average used to be 20's now early 30's)
