Rapoport & Rapoport (1982)

• What five types of family diversity did they identify?

  1. Organisational Diversity
  2. Cultural Diversity
  3. Social Class Diversity
  4. Life Cycle Diversity
  5. Family life course diversity
• What do the five types of family diversity mean?

  1. Organisational Diversity - How labour is divided between family members.
  2. Cultural Diversity - How religion and ethnicity affect family relationships and socialisation experiences.
  3. Social Class Diversity - how class affects family relationships and socialisation experiences.
  4. Life Cycle Diversity - how members of the family from different historical periods can adopt different attitudes.
  5. Family life course diversity - how the structure of the family changes over time.