Families & Households sociologists

Question 1

Couples

Parsons

Answer 1

gender roles: instrumental & expressive roles

Question 2

Couples

Young & Willmott

Answer 2

symmetrical family

Question 3

Couples

Hochschild

Answer 3

dual burden, emotion work

Question 4

Couples

Duncombe & Marsden

Answer 4

triple shift

Question 5

Couples

Boulton

Answer 5

responsability for children

Question 6

Couples

Gershuny

Answer 6

division of labour (more equal), march of progress

Question 7

Couples

Smart

Answer 7

personal life perspective, meanings

Question 8

Couples

Weeks

Answer 8

same sex relationships, co-indepedence

Question 9

Couples

Pahl & Vogler

Answer 9

money management : allowance / pooling

Question 10

Couples Evaluation

Oakley

Answer 10

Young & Willmott exaggerate, there is no evidence of symmetry; husbands ‘help’ in mainly pleasurable tasks

Question 11

Couples Evaluation

Kan

Answer 11

higher women’s wages - less hours doing housework; generational shift: younger men do more domestic work

Question 12

Couples Evaluation

Crompton & Lyonette

Answer 12

material vs cultural explanation

Question 13

Childhood

Pilcher

Answer 13

separateness

Question 14

Childhood

Postman

Answer 14

disappearance of childhood, information hierarchy

Question 15

Childhood

Aries / Shorter

Answer 15

-(march of progress view) child-centred family

Question 16

Childhood

Jenks

Answer 16

childhood in postmodernity: instability & surveillance

Question 17

Childhood

Smart

Answer 17

new sociology of childhood

Question 18

Childhood

Firestone/Holt

Answer 18

child liberationism

Question 19

Childhood Evaluation

Wagg

Answer 19

childhood is socially constructed

Question 20

Childhood Evaluation

Opie

Answer 20

childhood is not disappearing, there is still a separate children’s culture

Question 21

Childhood Evaluation

Palmer

Answer 21

toxic childhood

Question 22

Childhood Evaluation

Childline

Answer 22

thousands of calls from abused children

Question 23

Theories of the Family

Parsons (functionalist)

Answer 23

functions of the family (socialisation of children, stablilisation of adult personalities); functional fit of the nuclear family

Question 24

Theories of the Family

Engels

Answer 24

private property –> patriarchal monogamous nuclear family –> defeat of the female sex

Question 25

# Theories of the Family Zaretsky (marxist)

Answer 25

safe haven

Question 26

# Theories of the Family Somerville

Answer 26

liberal feminist, march of progress view

Question 27

# Theories of the Family Evaluation Young & Willmott

Answer 27

disagree with Parsons (nuclear vs extended family)

Question 28

# Theories of the Family Evaluation D.Morgan

Answer 28

functionalists and marxists assume family = nuclear family

Question 29

# Theories of the Family Evaluation Sommerville

Answer 29

criticises radical feminism and Zaretsky (exaggerates importance of family as refuge, underestimates cruelty and violence)

Question 30

# Demography Hirsch

Answer 30

age pyramids, policies (ageing population)

Question 31

# Demography Harper

Answer 31

reasons for demographic changes; radical longevity

Question 32

# Demography Hunt

Answer 32

lifestyle, identity (regardless of age)

Question 33

# Demography Vertovec

Answer 33

super diversity

Question 34

# Demography Office for National Statistics

Answer 34

birth rate, fertility rate, infant mortality rate, marriage/divorce rates, death rate, migration

Question 35

# Demography Evaluation Pilcher

Answer 35

although there is ageism, class and gender inequalities also impact on older people's quality of life

Question 36

# Changing family patterns Murray

Answer 36

lone-parent families, dependency culture

Question 37

# Changing Family Patterns Fletcher

Answer 37

higher expectations of marriage, continuing popularity of marriage / remarriage

Question 38

# Changing family patterns Allan & Crow

Answer 38

changing expectations of marriage

Question 39

# Changing family patterns Smart

Answer 39

personal life perspective

Question 40

# Changing family patterns Weeks

Answer 40

kinship networks

Question 41

# Changing family patterns Weston

Answer 41

same-sex-cohabitation = quasi-marriage; families of choice

Question 42

# Changing family patterns Ferri & Smith

Answer 42

stepfamilies (similar to first families)