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What are the 12 different types of family

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Lone parent families
multi-cultural families
Student huseholds
Nuclear families
same sex families
reconstituted families
empty nest families
neo conventional families
Living apart together
extended families
Beanpole families
Lone person households

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What is a family

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A group of people related by blood or marriage

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What is the nuclear family

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A typical family group which consists of parents and children

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What did the theorist Murdock say about the family

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He said that the in all societies the nuclear family is the basis of the family unit

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What are lone parent families

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Lone parent families are families which consist of one child and one parent

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What did the theorist spencer 2005 say about lone parent families

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He said that lone parent families result in poorer health, lower educational achievement and increased risk of children going into anti social behaviour

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What is ageing population

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Tis is the shift in the distribution of a countrys population towards older ages

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What are the reasons for the causes of ageing population

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decline in fertility rates and increase in life expectancy, dependency culture

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what are the two types of socialisation

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Primary and secondary

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What is primary socialisation

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children are socialised from a young age through family and friends

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what is the secondary socialisation

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individuals are socialised into norms and values through the likes of social media and school

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what is an example of an informal social control

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dress codes

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what is an example of a formal social control

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Police and the military

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what are formal mechanisms of control

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Different institutions which directly control the behaviour of the population through the military, police courts and the criminal justice system

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what are informal mechanisms of control

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This is controlling someones behaviour by enforce and sanctioning them in an informal way

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what is cultural hybridity

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where different cultures clash together

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what is culture diversity

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this is a variety of different cultures or ethnic groups

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Who created the concept of individualisation

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Berk (1992)

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who created the concept of childhood disappearing

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Neil postman

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What is Neil postmans view of childhood

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He thinks that children have the same rights as adults and he argues that childhood emerged from mass literacy

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What theorsist criticised Postmans view

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Jenks (2005)

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what is a norm

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A typical pattern of behaviour that a certain person does

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What is a value

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A long lasting belief or idea that a group of people believe

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what is high culture

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this is to describe people who are called elites that include things which they can only access such as ballets and operas

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what is popular culture
norms and activities that people do on a normal day like swimming, cinema and sports
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what are neil postman's views on childhood
he said that children now have the same rights as adults and that childhood emerged from mass literacy
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who criticises postman's view of childhood
Jenks 2005
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what are jenks view of childhood disappearing
he said that technologies haven't resulted in the disappearance of childhood and that there is still concerns among parents
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what is global culture
the growing trend of cultural products and activities becoming universal, examples of this are: Mcdonalds, Coca-cola and Nike.
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what is consumer culture
A culture where values and activities are centred on the purchases and consumption of goods and services.
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what is ageing population
A shift in the distribution of a country's population towards older age s
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What is the radical feminist's view on the family?
Delphy and Leonard (1992) points out that men are usually regarded as the heads of the household. Men control all of the finances and the property as well. Women perform unpaid domestic work
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What types of perspectives are there for feminists towards the family?
Liberal feminsists radical feminists marxist feminists
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What is the marxist's feminist view on the family?
Benston (1972) argues that women help to reproduce labour power for capitalism. Women renew men's ability to go out and work and create profits for capitalist class. Women socialise and care for the children.
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What is the liberal feminist's view on the family?
Jennifer sommerville (2000) points out the progress women have made in equality in family life and relationships. Women tend to have more choice about whether to marry or cohabit.
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what is the evaluation of the feminists views on the family?
Catherin Hakim (2000) argued that women can make free and rational choices about their life choices about their lives. feminists tend to emphasise the negative aspects of the traditional nuclear family.
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What is the functionalist view on the nuclear family?
Parsons argued how women have expressive roles while men have instrumental roles. Parsons summarized men’s roles as been the breadwinner and making the most money while the women are the caregivers and the one taking care of the children Murdock suggested the nuclear has four essential functions: reproductive sexual economic educational
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What are the theorist which talk about ethnic identity?
Nayack Jacobson Dawney
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What is Nayack's view on ethnic identity?
The sociologist used the term white wannabes to describe white british males who dress, act and speak which is influenced by black hip hop culture
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What is Jacobson's view on ethnic identity?
Young pakistanis are adopting a strong islamic identity due to social exclusion
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Which theorists talk about social class identity?
Murray mooney skeggs
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Which was Murray's view on social class?
The sociologist suggested that there is a dependency culture from the welfare state which help the underclass who are the unemployed
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What is Mooney's view on social class?
The key feature of the upper class is their invisibility and social closure. They separate themselves from the rest of society
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What is Skegg's view on social class?
working class women felt humiliated by the way in which doctors are treated due to working class backgrounds
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Which theorists talked about gender identity?
Parsons Oakley Conell
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What was Parson's view on gender?
Parsons mentioned how women have expressive roles and men have instrumental roles. Men are the breadwinners and the women are the caregivers
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What was Oakley's view on gender?
gender roles are socially constructed through the process of gender socialisation
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What was Conell's view on gender/
There is an emergence of masculine identities like macho and dominant
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Which theorists talked about disable identity?
Zola Shakeaspere
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What was shakeaspere's view on disabled identity?
Disabled people are often socialised to see themselves as victims
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what is Zola's view on disabled identity?
language used to described disabled people is discriminative like deformed and abnormal
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Which theorists talked about age identity?
Postman cornell bradley
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What is postman's view on age?
He suggested that the disappearance of childhood within society
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What is Cornell's view on age?
He suggested that old age is seen as a burden in society and is stereotyped as a time of ill health and dependency
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What is Bradley's view on age?
He suggested that higher status than youth or old age
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Which theorists talked about sexual identity?
Rich Mcintosh
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What was Rich's view on sexual identity?
women's sexuality is oppressed by men in patriarchal society through institutions like marriage, sexual violence and objectification of women
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What was Mcintosh' view on sexual identity?
the concept of homosexuality is socially constructed and she argued that the role of homosexual is defined by societal expectations and norms
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Which theorists talked about national identity?
Kumar Anderson
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what was Kumar's view on national identity?
English national identity is elusive
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What is Anderson's view on national identity?
argues that a nation is an imagined community in that members of a nation will never meet most of their fellow members

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