Questions

• Bean Pole family

  Family with many generations but not many within each generation
• Warm Bath Theory

  Sociological concept coined by Parsons
• Ways in which childhood could be said to be toxic

  • Junk Food
  • Technology and Video Games
  • Lack of parental engagement
• Sociology of personal life

  Sociological perspective associated with Smart
• Childhood is disappearing


  Sociological perspective associated with Postman
• Government policies from the last 40 years which have impacted the family


  • Children's Act
  • Civil Partnerships
  • Child Support Agency
  • Paternity Leave
  • New Deal
  • Gay Marriage Act
  • Sex Discrimination Act
  • Equal Pay Act
• Housewives and housework

  Sociological study completed by Oakley
• Triple shift

  Emotional Support, Paid Work, Domestic Labour
• Matrifocal family


  Family type where the mother is in charge
• Traditional family is disintegrating


  Perspective associated with the New Right
• Births since 1900

  Decline
• Reasons for the rise in divorce

  • Divorce reform Act
  • Secularisation
  • Less Stigma
  • Rise in expectations
  • Changing role of women
• Social norm

  Unwritten rule of behaviour
• Infant mortality rate


  The number of infant deaths before their first birthday per thousand live births per year
• Arranged marriage vs Forced marriage

  Arranged marriage means they still have choice, but a forced marriage doesn't have choice and is illegal
• The UK census is completed every 10 years
• Migration

  The movement from one country to another
• Polygyny


  Family where there are multiple wives
• Symmetrical family

  Where there is equality between the partners in terms of domestic labour and decision making
• Fertility rate

  The average number of children a women will have during her childbearing years (15–45)
• Expressive role

  The emotional support and caring role
• Toxic childhood


  Sociological concept associated with Sue Palmer
• Cushioning Effect

  Sociological concept associated with Zarestsky
• Dark side of the family

  Abuse and Violence in the family
• Neo-conventional family


  Duel earning family with traditional roles
• Types of diversity according to the Rapaports

  • Cultural
  • Life course
  • Organisational
  • Generational
  • Social Class
• Reasons for the rise in cohabitation

  • Secularisation
  • Less stigma
  • Women's financial independence
  • Rising disillusionment with marriage
• Functionalist thinkers who discuss the family

  Murdock and Parsons
• Functions of the family according to Murdock

  • Economic
  • Reproduction
  • Socialisation
  • Stabilisation of Sex Drive
• Death rate


  Number of deaths per year per 1000 of the population
• Types of feminism

  • Radical
  • Liberal
  • Marxist
  • Duel Systems
  • Intersectional
• Postmodernist view of the family

  We create the family that suits are needs at that moment in time
• Joint Conjugal roles

  Partners share the domestic labour and leisure time
• Child-centered

  When society and families focus on the needs of the children
• Family

  A group of people bonded by blood or legal means
• Divorce rate


  The number of divorces per 1000 married couple per year
• Negotiated family and individualisation theory

  Sociological concept associated with Beck
• Marriages in the past 50 years


  Decline
• Inequalities between children and adults

  • Neglect
  • Abuse
  • Control over time, space, bodies and resources
• Reasons for the change in position of children

  • Introduction of compulsory school
  • Child protection legislation
  • Children's rights
  • Declining family size