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Question | Answer |
Feral children | Genie Oxana |
Kibbutz | Collectivist culture. Children looked after by community rather than family. |
Zuma | Member of Zulu tribe. Practise polygamy. Ex president of South Africa. Cultural relativity example. |
Dench | Researched Asian families. More likely to be extended than nuclear. White British has more diverse family types. |
Berthoud | Nuclear families common with Asian background. Women do expressive roles, men do instrumental roles. Asian more likely to be married and low divorce vs white and African-Caribbean families. |
David Cameron | Wants more marriage as better for children. Non nuclear families are problem. Similar to New Right perspective. |
Parsons | Functionalist. After socialisation by family, men do instrumental roles, women do expressive roles. |
Parsons | Functionalist. Nuclear family as warm bath theory. Family help relieve stress from work. Takes strain home, family wash away his problems and ready for work next day. |
Ann Oakley | Gender socialisation. Canalisation through toys and words. Manipulation based on gender norms. |
Ann Oakley | Double burden. Career and family. |
Sue Sharpe | Women have more aspirations. No longer centred around love, marriage and children. |
Fresh et al | Boys are more sensitive and emotionally closer mother than father. Mothers still care givers. |
Sue Lees | Double standard when it comes to sex. Boys praised for sex. Girls are called negative names and looked down on for it. |
Wolf | Genderquake. Power from men to women. Women starting to get more control. Changing attitudes to sexuality, family, work and life. |
Homosexuality | 1886-illegal to be gay. Men like Oscar Wilde went to prison. 1967-homosexuality legalised. 2002-right to adopt given. 2004-civil partnerships introduced. |
Elton John | In a civil partnership. Celebrity help set social trends. |
JK Rowling | Single mum. Prejudice against single mothers. Donates to charities. Single parents don't want to live off benefits. Single parent better than bad marriage. |
Gingerbread | Less than 2% of single parents are teenagers. 41% of children in single parent families live in relative poverty. |
Fathers 4 Justice | 1/3 children live without a father in the uk. |
Divorce | Divorce rates declining since 1994. This could be because people are cohabiting and not getting married. Divorce reform act 1969 |
Saunders | Working class are genetically less intelligent than middle class. This cause different classes. |
Rodgers and Pryor | Long term impact of divorce: Poor health Educational achievement Behaviour Income Short term stress is common |
Death of nuclear family | Functionalist and new right believe nuclear family is dying out. |
Giddens | Divorce used to be rare and deviant. Divorce is now easier and less stigmatised. More cohabitation. Now live in families of choice. |
Boomerang generation | Young adults choose to cohabitate with their parents after living without them. |
Sue Palmer | Toxic childhood. Child centred society fear crime against children. Media, games, school, parents and peers pressure kids into negative things. |
Gardner et al | Helicopter parenting due to fear of online. |
Ageing population | People living longer. Government worried about cost of caring for the elderly. |
Julia Brannen | Grandparents are pivot generation. The support they give for children and care they give for grandchildren determine success of the family. |
Miller | Sandwich generation. Middle aged people must care for young children but also their parents. |
Duncombe and Marsden | Triple shift. Family support, housework, career. |
Fawcett society | Want to see society that is not affected by persons sex. |
Marx and Engels | Marxist. Nuclear family designed for capitalism, so money can be kept with the family. |
Cater and Coleman | Risk of being teen mum is 10 times likelier if from an unskilled family. Background, like poverty and disadvantage, played a major part in decision to have a child. |
Charles | Men are still breadwinners. Women still viewed as care givers. |
Leach | Cereal packet family. What families should be like. Felt that nuclear family was too small for people's desires. |
Willmott and Young | Family is symmetrical. Males and females have similar conjugal roles. |
Gershuny | Lagged adaptation. Men doing more housework. Adapting to women roles. Lagged because men are changing at a slower rate. |
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