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Diversity Flashcards

(23 cards)

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Functionalist view on diverse families

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Considered dysfunctional since they are less able to perform the functions required of the family.

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New right view on lone parent families

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Lone mothers cannot discipline their children.
No male role model results in educational failure, delinquency, and social instability.
Poorer and a burden on the welfare state.

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What is the main reason for lone parent families according to the new right

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Collapse of relationships between cohabiting couples

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Benson’s evidence that married couples are more stable

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The rate of divorce among married couples is lower than the rate of breakups among cohabiting couples

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What laws and plocies do the new right view as undermining to the conventional family

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Easy access to divorce, gay marriage and widespread availability of welfare benefits

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What is Chester’s Neo-conventional family

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A dual-earner family in which both spouses go out to work and not just the husband.

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What evidence did Chester find that little has changed

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Most live in a house headed by married couple.
Most children are reared by their two natural parents.
Cohabitation is a temporary phase before marrying or re-marrying.
Although births outside marriage have increased, most are jointly registered.

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What are the five types of diversity according to Rapport and Rapport

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Organisational diversity
Cultural diversity
Social class diversity
Life-stage diversity
Generational diversity

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Organisational diversity

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Some couples have joint conjugal roles and two wage-earners, while others have segregated conjugal roles and one wage-earner.

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Cultural diversity-

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There are more lone-parent families among African-Caribbean households and more extended families among Asian households.

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Social class diversity

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Differences are the result of income differences between households of different social classes.

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Life-stage diversity

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Young newlyweds, couples with dependent children, retired couples, and widows who are living alone.

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Generational diversity

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Older and younger generations have different attitudes and experiences that reflect the historical periods in which they have lived.

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What is Stacy’s divorce extended family

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A family whose members are connected by divorce rather than marriage.

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Giddens and Beck’s individualisation thesis

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Traditional social structures such as class, gender, and family have lost much of their influence over us.

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Becks theory based on the individualisation thesis

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‘Standard biography’ has been replaced by the ‘do-it-yourself biography’ that individuals today must construct for themselves.

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What is Giddens’ pure relationship

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A relationship that exists solely to satisfy each partner’s needs.

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Impact of pure relationship on the individual

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Self-discovery or self-identity: trying different relationships becomes a way of establishing ‘who we are’.

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How does Giddens see same-sex relationship

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Leading the way toward new family types and creating more democratic and equal relationships.

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How are same-sex coupled pioneers

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Not influenced by tradition like heterosexuals are, relationships are based on choice rather than traditional roles.

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What is Beck and Beck-Gernsheim’s ‘negotiated family’

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Do not conform to the traditional family norm. They enter the relationship on an equal basis.

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How do we live according to the connectedness thesis

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Within networks of existing relationships that strongly influence our range of choices in relationships.