Family studies - The Rapoports (1989)

Question 1

What are the five types of family diversity?

O_________, Cu_____, Cl___, L__-C_____, Co____

Answer 1

• Organisational
• Cultural
• Class
• Life-course
• Cohort

Question 2

What is Organisational family diversity?

Answer 2

The differences in the ways families are organised. For example:

• Dual-career families
• Segregated or integrated conjugal roles
• Traditional roles

Question 3

What is cultural family diversity?

Answer 3

How families differ because of their culture- norms, values, traditions. For example:

• Polygamy- having more than one spouse at a time
• Polyandry-a woman having more than one husband at a time

Question 4

What is Class family diversity?

Answer 4

How families are run differently because of their place in society. For example:
*Higher-income families may employ childcare workers to help raise their children

Question 5

What is Life-course family diversity?

Answer 5

When members of the family go through different stages in their lives. For example:
*A family member may start in a nuclear family but go through divorce and become lone parent family

Question 6

What is Cohort family diversity?

Answer 6

When family members have a different experience of life based on the conditions and time in which they were born.

Question 7

Who criticised the Rapoport ‘family diversity’ (1989) study? Why?

Answer 7

Robert Chester said that the Rapoports exaggerated the extent that diversity exists in society.

Question 8

What else did they find emerging in society?

Answer 8

same-sex households