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Diversity
- Beanpole family
- Brannen 2003
- Believed the Beanpole
family type is the most
common in Britain today
- Due to ageing population and decreasing in birth rates
- Due to ageing population and decreasing in birth rates
- Believed the Beanpole
family type is the most
common in Britain today
- Family is described as 'long and thin'
- Due to the ageing population, there
are more older generations in families
- Means the family is very 'long'
- Means the family is very 'long'
- Due to birth rates
decreasing, there are
less children within
families and so meaning
that there are fewer
aunts and uncles
- Means the
family is very
'thin'
- Means the
family is very
'thin'
- Brannen 2003
- Isolated privatised nuclear family
- Reasons for the decline of
the classic extended family
and the emergence of the
privatised nuclear family
- The need for small family
units in order for
geographical mobility
- Easier for the family
to move around
when smaller
- Easier for the family
to move around
when smaller
- Strengthened bonds between
partners to protect family
stability
- The need to avoid
economic and status
conflict between
extended kin
- Society is now more meritocratic
- Kin support is less useful/necessary
because it is what you know not
whom you know
- Kin support is less useful/necessary
because it is what you know not
whom you know
- Greater affluence and reduced family functions
- Less need for kin
- Less need for kin
- Higher rates of social mobility weakens kin links
- The need for small family
units in order for
geographical mobility
- Parsons,
Young and
Willmott and
Fletcher
- Suggested the structurally
isolated privatised nuclear family
has emerged as the main family
form in contemporary Britain
- Suggested the structurally
isolated privatised nuclear family
has emerged as the main family
form in contemporary Britain
- Parsons
- Isolated nuclear family is well
adapted to meet both the
needs of industrial society and
needs of individuals
- This is why it is the main family form
- This is why it is the main family form
- Isolated nuclear family is well
adapted to meet both the
needs of industrial society and
needs of individuals
- Reasons for the decline of
the classic extended family
and the emergence of the
privatised nuclear family
- Modified extended family
- The family geographically live
very far apart but still attain close
contact with each other
- Due to technological advances this
close contact is much easier to
attain within contemporary Britain
- Eg, social networking, telephone, smartphones etc
- Eg, social networking, telephone, smartphones etc
- Families now no need to live near each other to remain a close relationship
- The family geographically live
very far apart but still attain close
contact with each other
- The Lone
Parent family
- Percentage of lone
parent families has
tripled since 1971
- Various factors explain why
there is a rapid growth in the
number of lone parent families
- The greater
economic
independence
of women
- Improved contraception
- Changing
male attitudes
- Fewer shotgun
weddings
- This is where reluctant couples are
forced into marriage by the father of
the pregnant woman, ensuring the
man marries the woman
- This is where reluctant couples are
forced into marriage by the father of
the pregnant woman, ensuring the
man marries the woman
- Reproductive
technology is
available to women
- Changing
social attitudes
- Less social stigma to lone parenthood
- Less social stigma to lone parenthood
- The greater
economic
independence
of women
- Percentage of lone
parent families has
tripled since 1971
- Symmetrical family
- Within contemporary Britain some
sociologists believe society has become
less Patriarchla
- Feminists would criticise this idea as they believe women are still
disadvantaged and oppressed within the family
- Feminists would criticise this idea as they believe women are still
disadvantaged and oppressed within the family
- Been a change from how society
used to have segregated conjugal
roles within the family
- This shows a clear division
and seperation between the
male and female roles
- This shows a clear division
and seperation between the
male and female roles
- Society has now more
integrated conjugal roles
within families
- This shows few divisions between male
and female partners' roles
- This shows few divisions between male
and female partners' roles
- Within contemporary Britain some
sociologists believe society has become
less Patriarchla
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