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Family Diversity Debate Flashcards

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What is family diversity diversifying ?

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Clear societal changes leading to greater choice and Variety of family forms

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What are the points FOR family diversifying ?

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Postmodernism
- reflexivity and confluent love: Giddens
- risk society and individualisation: Beck
- Judith Stacey (Pam and dotty) and postmodernism family

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What is the postmodernist view on family diversitfying ?

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  • Risk : decisions centred around avoidance of risk: marriage, children
  • Individualisation: decisions based on individual needs so divorce is suits them or children before marriage
  • reflexivity: constantly questioning happiness and decisions
  • confluent love: seek relationships that fulfill emotional needs and stay as long as they do this
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What does postmodernism Pam and dotty say ?

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  • Pam and Dotty are both married and worked to support husbands income
  • dotty = physically abused by husband
  • both left and Pam remarried
  • dotty took back husbands after heart attack along as he did the housework
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What does Stacey celebrate

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The decline of traditional nuclear family

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Why did Stacey celebrate the decline of traditional Nuclear family ?

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It was always a myth as devalues the rich variety of kinship stories

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What is Pam and dotty examples of ?

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Individuals can extend or redefine families and create families that work best for them in personal circumstances

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Who argues that family diversity has been exaggerated

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  • Neo conventional family: Robert Chester
  • Gittins: family ideology
  • leach : cereal packet family
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What does Robert Chester: Neo conventional argue ?

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Families are not strictly nuclear family but based on the nuclear model

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How does Robert Chester: Neo conventional describe Families are not strictly nuclear family but based on the nuclear model ?

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Neo conventional families

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Ways according to Chester families are Neo-conventional ?

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  • parents cohabit than Marry
  • same sex couples
  • shared gender/domestic roles
  • both have careers
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What are all the examples of Neo-conventional a variation of according to Chester ?

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All variations of nuclear family

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Why are surveys and census misleading according to Chester ?

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Based on snapshot

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Why exactly is surveys and census being based on snapshot misleading according to Chester ?

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Only shows how many individuals are based on different types of family at a single point in time

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In reality how are individuals In households according to Chester ?

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Individuals more in and out of household at different stages in life

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According to Gittins: family ideology , what consensus is there in the uk ?

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Nuclear family is a normal family type

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Why is the consensus maintained according to Gittins : family ideology ?

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Due to powerful ideology of the nuclear family

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What does the ideology of the powerful ideology of the nuclear family do according to Gittins ?

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Labels alternative family forms as undesirable

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What is nuclear family still deemed as in the uk according to Gittins ?

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Still desirable and dominant type

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Why is nuclear family seen as desirable according to Gittins ?

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Due to the ideology of the nuclear family being strong it deters people from choosing alternative family type

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According to leach: cereal packet family , how does mass media portray the nuclear family ?

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Portrays nuclear family as norm through advertising

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Example of how nuclear family is portrayed in ads according to leach: cereal packet family ?

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Cereal ads family smiling happily and mom cooks and does the chores for husband and children

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What does ads of nuclear family show according to leach: cereal packet family ?

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Shows examples of what everyone should be like and encourages people to aspire

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By ads making nuclear family desirable and what people should aspire to be like according to leach : cereal packet family what does this support ?

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Supports ideology of nuclear family being powerful and normal

Sociology PAPER 1: Family (14 decks)

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