fam sociologists (shorthand)

• Gittins (1988)?

  Age patriarchy
• Hockey and James (1993)?

  ''acting up'' and ''acting down''
• De Mause (1974)?

  March of progress for childhood
• Hillman (1993)?

  Boys less protected
• Bonke ()?

  Girls do more domestic labour
• Wagg (1992)?


  No universal experience of childhood
• Postman (1994)?

  Childhood disappearing at dazzling speed
• Pilcher (1955)?

  Childhood seperateness
• Pollock (1983)?

  Criticise Aries, childhood did exist in Middle Ages just differently
• Stacey (1998)?


  Greater freedom and choice has benefitted women
• Beck (1992)?

  'do-it-yourself' biography, negotiated family
• Giddens (1992)?

  Pure relationship
• Budgen (2011)?

  Criticises individualisation thesis, exaggerates choice
• Smart ()?

  'Connectedness thesis'
• Benson (2006)?


  Couples more stable when married
• Oakley (1997)?


  New Right assumptions on biological gender roles are wrong
• Vertovec (2007)?

  'super-diversity'
• Schutes (2011)?

  40% of adult care nurses are migrants
• Hochschild (2003)?

  feminisation of migration
• Castles (2000)?

  assimilationist policies are culturally backward
• Walker (2011)?

  poorest in England die 7 years
• 2014?

  number of people over 65 is equal to under 15s
• 2012?

  1/5 of women aged 45 childless
• Young & Wilmott?

  march of progress, symmetrical family
• Parsons family?

  warm bath theory, instrumental vs expressive
• Bott?

  segregated/joint conjugal roles
• Ansley?

  takers of shit
• Greer?

  matrifocal families
• Chester?


  neo-conventional family
• Budgen?


  Individ thesis exaggerates choice in relationships
• Duncombe & Marsden?


  triple shift
• Dunne?


  lesbians more symmetrical
• Cunningham?

  home habitat shrunk
• Palmer?

  toxic childhood
• Murray?

  lone parent delinquency
• Bejin?

  cohabitation permanent alternative