Family Revision activities 2014

With the following activities – aim to recap core knowledge..but then start to try and:

• Explain points – check understanding• Relate to debates• Consider different theoretical views• Make links between factors• Think about which points you will emphasise

most in your answers

Family Revision 1

Key terms review

BEANPOLE FAMILY BIRTH RATE CEREAL-PACKET FAMILY

CHILD-CENTREDNESS

COHABITATION CONJUGAL ROLES MORTALITY RATE DEPENDENCY RATIO

DIVORCE DIVORCE RATE DUAL BURDEN EMPTY SHELL MARRIAGE

EXPRESSIVE ROLE EXTENDED FAMILY FAMILY FERTILITY RATE

JOINT CONJUGAL ROLES

INFANT MORTALITY RATE

LONE PARENT FAMILY

MARCH OF PROGRESS

MARRIAGE MARRIAGE RATE NET MIGRATION NEO-CONVENTIONAL FAMILY

PATRIARCHY PRIMARY SOCIALISATION

RECONSTITUTED FAMILY

SECULARISATION

SEGREGATED CONJUGAL ROLES

SERIAL MONOGAMY SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION

STABILISATION OF ADULT PERSONALITY

STRUCTURALLY ISOLATION

SYMMETRICAL FAMILY URBANISATION WARM BATH THEORY

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ALIENATION AGEISM TOXIC CHILDHOOD

DUAL WORKER FAMILY

INSTRUMENTAL ROLE

LOOSE SOCIAL NETWORKS

KINSHIP TIES

STAGE 3 FAMILY WELFARE DEPENDENCY

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Role of the Family

Focus• What functions does the family perform for society?• How does the family support (or harm) individuals?• How does the family link to the rest of society?• Is the family a positive or negative institution?

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Functionalism Marxism

The family and individuals

Who benefits most?

Teaching norms and values

Social control

Links to economy

Key concepts to sort (Functionalist and Marxist)

Sexual function Inheritance and private property

‘goodness of fit’ Dislike of nuclear family model

G P Murdock Reproductive function Reduces alienation and frustration

Parsons

Althusser Ideological condititioning

Socialisation function (education)

Economic function(shelter, food etc)

Bias towards nuclear family

Stabilisation of adult personality

Engels Primary socialisation

Love and support Buffer to revolution Warm bath theory Zaretsky

Evaluation

Functionalism(pages 2/3)

Marxism(pages 4/5)

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Functionalism Feminism (general)

The family and individuals

Who benefits most?

Teaching norms and values

Social control

Links to economy

Key points/studies Evaluation

Marxist Feminism

Main argument –

Benston:

Ansley :

Radical feminism

Main argument -

Millett:

Gittens:

Liberal feminism

Main argument –

Young & Willmott:

Somerville:

Role of family - diamond 9

Sexual, economic, reproduction and educational role

Family prevents revolution

Escape ‘adult role’ Family promotes ideology

Domestic labour harms women

Men are the enemy

Capitalism mainly benefits from

families

Warm bath = eases tensions

Nuclear family is to pass on wealth

through inheritance

Don’t forget…

• Dark side of the family (domestic violence/abuse)

• Mental health and family life

Exam ‘style’ questions

• Using material from Item 2B and elsewhere, assess the Marxist view that the main role of the family is to serve the interests of capitalism. (24 marks)

• Using material from Item 2B and elsewhere, assess the Functionalist view of the role of the family in society(24 marks)

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Conjugal roles

Conjugal Roles RevisionEvidence/arguments For/against

Symmetrical familyYoung & WillmottBottSocial NetworksDecision makingChildcareFinancesInvisible workGender role socialisationDomestic appliancesDual workersEqual opportunities policiesSocial class differencesEthnic differencesMarch of progressJan PahlAnn OakleySocial construction of housewife roleGershunyPatriarchy

For equality

Against equality

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Demography

Demography consolidationCauses Effects Sociology stuff

Birth Rate decline

• Elderly in poverty• Pressure on NHS• Welfare dependency• Dependency ratio• Better healthcare• Better nutrition/diet• Benefits/pensions• Improved housing• Pressure on families• Smaller families• Equal opps and

women’s careers• Safer working

conditions• Improved sanitation• Better health education• More people live alone• Extra work for women• Contraception• Changing attitudes• Decline of religion• Children expensive• Cohabitation• Border control• Flee war/disaster• Globalisation

Fertility rate

Life expectancy

Death rate decline

Ageing

Migration

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Family Diversity

Family Diversity

Growth in diversity Sociology stuff Nuclear is Norm

Rappoports ChesterCereal Packet Image Parsons ‘goodness of fit’Stage 3 Family Ideology of the familyOrganisational diversity Class diversityCohort diversity Dual worker familiesSingle parents People living alongReconstituted Childless couplesCohabitation Gay couplesAllan & Crowe economic instabilityLess stigma rise of individualismSecularisation ApartnersImmigration Jeffrey WeeksContraception IVFEqual opportunities women’s careersDivorce laws Changing attitudes‘neo-conventional family’ Life cycleCheal Feminist viewsNew Right views Post Modern views

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Social Policies

Social PoliciesSupport Nuc. Sociology stuff Weaken Nuc.

Policies1. Raise school leaving age2. Sell of council houses.3. Increase welfare benefits.4. Married couples tax5. Divorce laws6. Recognise ‘civil partnerships’7. Increasing maternity leave8. Surestart children centres9. Child Support Agency10. Extended nursery places

Theories11. Welfare dependency12. Stability and discipline13. Escape patriarchy14. Escape domestic violence15. Overcowding16. Child poverty17. Gender regimes

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Causes of Divorce

Divorce- diamond 9

People have high expectations of

marriage

Women’s careersand expectations

Conflict in relationships

increasing

Financial stress

Opportunities to escape marriage

Confluent love increased

Decline of religion

Changing attitudes (less stigma)

Easier to get divorce (change in law)

What do Feminists and the New Right think about these issues?

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Effects of Divorce

Effects of DivorceOn children On Society On adults

New Right• Lack of role model• Discipline• Child poverty• Poor housing• Behaviour problems• Educational

underachievement• Teen pregnancy• Instability – moving

house

Feminists• Better to have quality

parenting ‘one loving parent’

New Right• Single parents = welfare

dependency• Rising crime

Feminists• Women are free from

unhealthy relationships

• Men lose home• Men struggle to survive

financially• Both adults affected by

financial costs of divorce• Losing contact with

wider family members/ friends

• Loneliness • Affect self esteem/

sense of being a failure/ guilt

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Marriage and Cohabitation

Marriage and CohabitationCaused fewer marriages Sociology Stuff

• Changing attitudes• Secularisation• Less stigma• Changes in position of women• Fear of divorce• Increase in cohabitation• Cost of weddings• Role models in media