family sociologists

• charles murray

  argues lone parent families are more likely to fail at school
• what do new right think about divorce

  hate it

  kids more likely to fail and be involved in crime
• what is the cost of domestic violence

  23 billion each year
• what percentage does domestic violence account for

  25 %
• feminist views on domestive violence

  they believe it is inevitable
• new man

  a man in touch with his feminine side and helps in the house
• ann oakley

  argues that women have the double burden -so they work and help in the household
• dunscombe and marsden

  triple shift because adding emotional work
• why are marxists critical of the nuclear family

  -benefits capatilism ,encourages people to consume (men buying diamonds)

  -maintains inequality -rich send to private school
• name a law for divorce

  divorce reform act -1969-needed a valid reason
• decline in marriage

  women less economically dependent on men

  rise in divorce rates

  cohabitation

  secularization
• delphy and leonard

  radical feminists

  argue family maintains patriarchy
• criticism of delphy and leonard

  men do more now
• what do functionalists think family does

  socialises children into norms of our society
• what do feminists think family do

  family exists to maintain gender inequality
• what do new right say about the family

  the best type of family is nuclear
• oakleys perspective of the family

  -liberal

  progressing towards equality

  cereal packet family important
• criticism of oakley

  she wrote this before same sex family was accepted
• criticisms of functionalist

  single parent familys are just as good

  feral childeren show socialisation isnt happening
• polygamy

  lots of husbands and wives at same time
• bigamy

  two husbands and wives
• polygyny

  a man with lots of wives
• polyandry

  a women with lots of husbands
• pahls

  friends are the new family and family lost traditional function
• parsons functions

  -primary socialization-teaches norms and values

  -stabilisation of adult personality-family is a warm bath
• murdocks 4 functions

  sexual -powerful emotional bond

  reproductive -new members

  economic-families work and buy to help maintain economy

  education -socialised
• Rapoport's 5 types of family diversitys

  social class diversity

  cultural diversity -different family structures

  life course diversity -a stage that a particular family has reached
• serial monogamy

  have 1 husband or wive but divorcing and remarrying
• what is marriage

  a legal contract between individuals that create kinship
• functionalist perspective on divorce

  fletcher believes rate of divorce rose because of high expectations

  -displays societys high values

  -think divorce is ok since people remarry
• feminists view on divorce

  kate millet -argues women initiate divorce confirming marriage is patriarchal and exploits
• zaretskys 7 functions

  -production of labour

  -geographical mobility -extended families are weak
• stratified diffusion

  family life filters down the middle class to working class
• marxist perspective on divorce

  unequal resources leads to tension in marriage

  nicky hart -argues economy demands female labour