Family - Topic 2 - Family Structure and Types of Diversity

• Who identified 5 different types of Family Diversity?

  Rapoports and Rapoports
• Name the 5 types of Family Diversity

  Social class

  Organisational

  Cultural

  Cohort

  Life Course
• Explain in a few words, what Organisational Diversity is?

  Refers to the way that the family might organise itself in terms of the roles people perform.
• Explain in a few words, what Cultural Diversity is?

  Families differ in terms of their beliefs and values.
• Explain in a few words, what Class Diversity is?

  That different family types have different social classes and they have different opportunities.
• Explain in few words, what is Life Course is?


  That we do not live in the same family structure/household for the whole of our lives.
• Explain in a few words, what is Cohort Diversity?

  There is a change over time and what is the norm in terms of family life for different generations.
• How many sociologists explore Family Diversity?

  7
• Name all the sociologists that explore Family Diversity?

  Giddens

  Beck-Gernstein

  Smart

  Fletcher

  Goode

  Murray

  Berthoud
• What does Giddens find out?

  That the confluent love is replacing romantic love
• What did Beck-Gernstein find out?

  Love is the only certainty in an uncertain world
• What did Smart find out?

  Individualisation thesis exaggerates the decline of the family
• What did Fletcher find out?

  Divorce rate has risen due to the rising expectations of marriage
• What did Goode find out?

  Secularisation means marriage has become less sacred
• What did Murray find out?

  Increase in lone parent families due to welfare benefits