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Cards (11)
Lewis
(Modernist)
Individuals have
greater
freedom of choice over
personal
lives and so we should study the
changes
to personal life
Murray
(Modernist)
Welfare state offers
incentives
so is encouraging
lone
parent families as state helps support them
Silva
(Modernist)
Concerns over
lone
parents and
welfare
of children are an attempt to force women back into
traditional
gender roles
Parsons
(Modernist)
Nuclear
family suited to meeting needs of
modern
society and performing primary socialisation and
SOAP
Murray
(Modernist)
Nuclear family provides best
upbringing
for kids other types are unstable
Provides clear
division
of labour between
breadwinner
and
homemaker
Lone parents
burden
on society
Marriage is
essential
for creating a
stable
environment
Chester
(Modernist)
Increase in family diversity
only important change is move from
conventional
family to
neo-conventional
family
Most people live in household headed by
married couple
Cohabiting
increased
Rapoport
and Rapoport (Modernist)
CLOGS
-
cultural
,
life
stage
,
organisational
,
generational
,
social
class
Beck
(Postmodernist)
Risk
society - traditional
patriarchal
family
unequal
but was stable and predictable with
clear
roles and
responsibilities
for each gender
Negotiated
family - no traditional
norms
and values but vary according to
wishes
and expectations of different members
Giddens
(Postmodernist)
Plastic
sexuality
- allowed
sex
to be main reason for relationship
Pure relationship
- meet partners needs based on
confluent
love
Stacey (
Postermodernist
)
New
type of
family divorce extended family
Diversity
benefited women as can escape
patriarchy
Weeks
(Postmodernist)
Growing acceptance of
sexual
and
family diversity
most
children
brought by couple, most
remarry
and many divorcees remarry