Families Flashcards
(25 cards)
Types of families
- Extended
- Nuclear/Cereal packet
- Single parent
- Reconstituted
- Same sex
- Beanpole (No. of children decreasing)
- Childless
- Cohabiting
- Symmetrical (Same roles)
Why has marriage decreased overtime?
- Female independence (Financially)
- Secularisation (Loss of religious influence)
- Career/education is priority
- Rising divorce rate
Why has divorce increased overtime?
- Easier to access
- DIVORCE REFORM ACT
- IRRETRIEVABLE BREAKDOWN
- Less stigma
- Female independence
- Domestic violence
- MEDIA
What is the Divorce Reform Act?
Grounds surrounding divorce widened
What is Irretrievable Breakdown?
Marriage can’t be fixed
How does Media influence divorce?
Stereotypical idea of love and marriage, when you don’t have ‘perfection’ you get disappointed and then divorce
Why has fertility rates decreased?
Women: Starting a family isn’t priority
What is the Domestic Division of Labour?
Conjugal Roles
What are the different Conjugal Roles?
- Joint Conjugal Roles
- Segregated Conjugal Roles
Difference between joint and segregated conjugal roles?
Joint: Both people in the marriage work and look after the house
Segregated: Breadwinner + Homemaker
What’s the Functionalist Approach to families?
Nuclear Family = Positive - NF is necessary and is an important part of society.
What do Functionalists think the Nuclear Family brings to society?
Reproduction: NF produces next generation of society’s members.
Primary Socialisation: NF - Agency of socialisation. Young children learn basics needed in later life.
Emotional Support: NF provides for its members’ emotional support.
Economic Support: NF provides its members with financial support
Name of a key Functionalist
Parsons
What’s the New Right Approach to families?
Nuclear Family = Positive - NF works best in meeting the needs of both society and its children
From a New Right perspective, What roles do men and women play in the Nuclear Family?
Women: Caring role
Men: Breadwinner role
What do the New Right think about other family types?
Views families other than the Nuclear Family as damaging to society
What’s the Feminist Approach to families?
Critical of Nuclear Family
How do Feminists view the Nuclear Family?
Patriarchal - NF benefits men more than women
What’s the Feminist ideology of the Triple Shift?
Women:
- Go to work
- Come home and do free domestic labour
- Child care
It’s still unequal.
Name of a key Feminist?
Ann Oakley
Name of a key New Right?
Charles Murray
What’s the Marxist Approach to families?
Critical of Nuclear Family
Why are Marxists critical of the Nuclear Family?
Critical of the role it plays in maintaining the capitalist system
What do the Marxists think the Nuclear Family brings to society?
- Support The Capitalist System: Supplying future generations of workers
- Socializes Working Class Children: Accepting their lower position in an unequal society
- Recreates Inequalities Between Social Classes Overtime: Bourgeoise parents can afford to buy their children a privileged education + pass on their wealth to the next generation. Poor have nothing to pass on.
