Divorce,marriage,cohabitation

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