Family Flashcards
(16 cards)
What are the functionalist approach to family?
Reproductive
Primary socialisation
Emotional support
Economic support
What is a reconstituted family?
Blended or step family.
The New right approach to family.
Women should be the carers and men the breadwinner.
Marxist view on family.
Supports capitalist system by supplying future generations of workers.
Socialises working class children to be part of the proletariat.
Recreates social inequality.
Feminist family approach
Nuclear families benefit men more than women.
Primary socialisation in family is a gender focus process.
What is Young and Willmott symmetrical family.
Men and women spend equal time on house but in different jobs.
What did Pahl find out?
More couples shared decisions on money spending in the household.
What did Gatrell find out?
Found that fathers in dual worker family play bigger role in children’s lives.
What did Crompton and Lyonette find?
Men’s involvement in family has increased less than women’s involvement in paid work.
Women still do ironing and washing.
What has changed in parent child relationship?
Less authoritarian
Child centred
Financially dependent
Why has life expectancy changed?
Decreasing in infant mortality Welfare state provision Public health and sanitation Preventative measures (medical screenings) Medicine advances.
Changes in fertility patterns?
Changes to family size as people don’t need children for economic reasons.
Later marriages due to career focussed mums.
Women rights changes
Birth control methods.
Changes in divorce patterns
Legal changes
Women’s rights changes
Secularisation
Media emphasis on romance (Disney)
Consequences of divorce
Losing contact with father
Loss of income
Loss emotional support
Why don’t men come forward about domestic abuse
They may not be believed
Women are stereotypically weaker
Feminist views have morphed problem
What did Ginn and Arber find out?
Elderly people want to keep their independence for as long as possible.
