Family diversity Flashcards
(16 cards)
A01 - Modernism 1950s
Life was once predictable.
There was firm beliefs about the nature of things through rigid socialisation into:
Gender, class, religion, ethnicity.
A02 - Modernism examples - Women
Give up paid work at marriage.
Get married in early 20s and have children.
Be in a heterosexual relationship.
Meet husband’s needs.
The postmodern era in society is now based on…
Postmodernism - AO1:
Confusion.
Lack of structure
Incessant choice.
- Our identities are not fixed. Society is fragmented.
Postmodernism - AO2 examples: Role of fathers
Emergence of stay at home fathers.
Men now have more symmetrical roles to women (expressive roles) like childcare and grocery shopping.
Cohabitation
Families that live together but are not married or in a civil partnership
Nuclear family
Husband, wife, one or more children.
Blended family
Formed from previous relationships (eg. step families)
Same - sex families
A family in which both parents are the same gender.
Beanpole families
Shape of the family tree, tall and thin, meaning families with a small number of children.
Lone parent families
Single parent (male or female, most typically female) with on eor more children.
Extended family
Families that live with extended relatives (aunts, uncles, grandparents.)
Individualisation Thesis - Giddens A01+A02
A01 - Increasing rapidity of social change and greater uncertainty force individuals to spend more time and effort deciding on what choices to make in their daily lives.
A02 - Greater family diversity bc of this. More joint conjugal roles, more women taking instrumental roles and smaller families.
Confluent Love - Giddens A01 + A02
AO1 - Individuals are now looking to create meaningful relationships that are based on love and respect. If a relationship is beneficial for the individuals, the relationship will continue. As soon as its not, individuala will seek an alternative.
A02 - There is an increase in cohabitation and single - parent families.
A02 - Gender equality… risk consciousness…
Beck - Negotiated families: A01 + AO2
A01 - Families do not follow traditional patterns anymore. Instead families work on compromising wishes of members in the family.
A02 - Gender equality means that both partners must work and spend longer building careers, which means the average person has less time to spend making a relationship work, which leads to an increase in cohabitation and decline in marriage.
- People have ‘risk consciousness’ - they see that nearly half of all marriages end in divorce and so they are less willing to take the risk and get married.
A03 - Postmodernism
:) Recognises the structures are not as powerful as they were once in shaping the family.
:( Exaggerates the amount of choice on offer.
:( Despite increased diversity, most people still harbour to the norm of the nuclear family.
:( Giddens and Beck are from the malestream - given their white, m/c status they ignore the reality that not everyone can choose their own family reality.
Rappoports : 5 different types of diversity.
- Cultural: Differences in family types based on ethnicity/religion (Afro-caribbean families are typically single parent, whilst South Asian families are typically extended families)
- Life-course: Different stages of lifes may have different divisions of labour or different families types. (Newly married couples may be more equal)
- Organisational - Different divisions of labour within the home and in paid work. (Symmetrical families, dual income, single parent.)
- Cohort - Differences in family lifestyles between generations (Divorce is now accepted in the modern family due to societal attitude changes, but compared to pre- 1990’s it was taboo.)
- Class - The roles that partners adopt based on their social class (Roles are more equal in m/c couples than w/c couples.)
