Changing family patterns

Question 1

What does Fletcher believe leds to more divorces

Answer 1

People have rising expectations of marriage, often because of media leaving them disappointed

Question 2

Who believes couples no longer being financially depenant leads to more divorce

Answer 2

Allan and Crow

Question 3

Who believes women are now feeling more valued at work

Answer 3

Hothschild

Question 4

What is Morgan’s problem with term divorce

Answer 4

Very vague as it’s different for everyone

Question 5

What is Chester’s view on cohabitation

Answer 5

Stepping stone towards marriage

Question 6

What is Weeks’ view on rise of cohabitation

Answer 6

Due to a rise in social acceptance

Question 7

What is Murray’s problem with family diversity

Answer 7

Attraction to single parent family due to the benefits

Question 8

What does Smith seem as very similar to the nuclear family

Answer 8

Step family

Question 9

What is Allan and Crow’s evaluation of Smith

Answer 9

Step families have divided loyalty’s

Question 10

Who believes the sigma attatched to divorce has rapidly declined

Answer 10

Mitchell and Goody

Question 11

How have marriages reduced from 1972 - 2009

Answer 11

Halfed

Question 12

Who normally gets married younger

Answer 12

Women

Question 13

How does class affect marriage

Answer 13

More proffesionals were married (lawyers,doctors) than unskilled labourers in 2013 - ONS

Question 14

What is a reason for wc to be less likely to get married

Answer 14

Since de-industrilization, work is much more volatile so wc people are much less financially stable - marriage is becoming a mc practise

Question 15

What are ethnic views on marriage

Answer 15

Berthoud - 3/4 of Pakistani or Bangladeshi women are married by 25 showing the expectations of the British Asian communities
British African carribean less likely to get marries - links to single motherhood potentially showing lack of commitment
Afro carribean / black men are more likely to marry white women than black afro caiibean women are to marry a white man
South Asians are least likely to marry outside race

Question 16

Who believes a decline in marriage is a threat to society and why

Answer 16

New right - Morgan - marriage ensures social stability and allows people to be better workers, lovers, parents

Question 17

What do the new right fear is to blame for decline in marriage

Answer 17

Social policy such as more benefits for single mothers
Secularisation

Question 18

What is a critique of the new right on why people dont get married as much

Answer 18

Seen as much more important - that is why people are more scared to commit and take it much more seriously, not wanting to rush into things
Economically since the financial crisis and austerity, people can’t afford to get marries - may have to chose between wedding and car

Question 19

What is the difference between arranged marriage and forced marriage

Answer 19

Arranged still requires consent- forced is illegal

Question 20

Who beleieves same sex marriages show a rejection of the church and therefore a genral moral decline

Answer 20

Morgan - new right

Question 21

What was the main argument for same-sex marriage

Answer 21

Wanted to have same prestige - basic civil rights

Question 22

What is one of the fastest growing households

Answer 22

Cohabitation

Question 23

What is a reason for more children born out of wedlock

Answer 23

People cohabitating are in their most fertile years

Question 24

What is a new right argument against cohabitation

Answer 24

Children do worse - backed up by data from ONS 2007

Question 25

2 Different froms of marital breakdown

Answer 25

Divorce seperations - still living together while divorce is going on Seperation - couples agree to live apart to avoid long or immoral journey of getting divorce Empty shell marriages - stay together in name only - no longer intimate

Question 26

Where is lone parent families most common and according to who

Answer 26

Black and mixed race mothers in deprived parts of cities - Kieran and Holmes

Question 27

What is a child raised by a single mother more likely to experience according to the new right

Answer 27

Grow up in poorer housing Experience behavioural problems Perform worse in school and gain fewer educational qualifications Leave school and home when young Be sexually active at a younger phase

Question 28

Critique on new right on one parent families

Answer 28

Mooney - parental conflict is worse than seperateness Ford and millar - many spend the benefits money entirely on mids, leaving little for themselves. New right suggest they choose this lifestyle, it's a reproduction of class - likely grew up with a single mother Often only temporary

Question 29

Feminist critique on new right families

Answer 29

1 parent families face nfair discrimination as it's different to nuclear family., leading them to be placed in areas like council estates leading to a self-fulfilling prophecy

Question 30

What is another fastly growing family type in UK

Answer 30

Reconstituted family

Question 31

What social groups are most likely to be living alone

Answer 31

Elderly - partner died White MC

Question 32

What do postmodernists believe is more important than the family

Answer 32

The life course someone goes on including rites of passage ( birth, puberty, marriage, death) which symbolically acknowlege someone moving along it

Question 33

Who believes there are 9 stages of the life course and what affect does this have

Answer 33

Hareven - an experience in one part (eg childhood) may affect how someone acts when they are middle aged

Question 34

Who argues that family houseolds are not static and whould naturally change over time according to our life course

Answer 34

Postmodernist - Stacey

Question 35

Why may the term family no longer be relevant

Answer 35

People may no longer feel such loyalty to kin and just do what is best for them

Question 36

What thesis do Giddens and Beck subscribe to

Answer 36

Individualisation thesis in this risk free society - don't care about other's opinions

Question 37

What types of diversity do the rapoports associate with life-cycle diversity

Answer 37

Structural - variety in family Domestic - roles which families take part in Cultural - the importance someone's culture has Class - may change family structure due to experience Cohort - when you were born

Question 38

Who believes in the socioligy of personaly life or conecctedness thesis and what is it

Answer 38

Personal life is more complecated than family as it explores different types of relationships - together but geographically seperate, open relationships and freindships, colleagues We are animals so we still care about what other people think - herd mentality