12 markers

• symmetrical families question


  functionalist - willmott and young

  feminist - oakley conjugal roles

  traditional roles - dual burden

  changing roles - new man, dual careers
• extended family questions


  functionalist - importance

  feminist - childcare, elderly

  marxist - benefits capitalism

  cultural differences - asian vs british

  economic changes - women in careers, independent

  official statistics
• nuclear family today questions


  functionalists - murdock, parsons functions + gender roles

  new right - ideal, stable adults

  feminists - delphy & leonard, oakley, cereal packet, conventional

  family diversity - rapoports
• gender inequalities today

  functionalists - willmott & young symmetrical famillies

  feminists - labour division

  marxists - housewives raise workers

  changing families - dual career, new man, neo-conventional

  changing status of women - employment, attitudes, feminism
• legal changes and divorce

  functionalists - fletcher, parsons

  marxists - class based differences

  feminists - millet

  legal changes - divorce reform 1969, family act 1984 1996

  status of women - employment, independent

  social attitudes - less stigma

  secularisation - less sacred

  media - positive divorce coverage
• grouping on performance

  interactionism - labelling, self fulfilling prophecy

  marxism - external factors

  feminism - single sex grouping

  functionalism - internal, quality of school

  internal - grouping, ethos, interactions, expectation, subculture

  external - ethnicity, material deprivation, code, cultural capital
• part of society main function

  functionalism - social cohesion

  marxism - produce workers

  feminism - patriarchal curriculum

  national / hidden curriculum - teaching rules

  other functions - e.g., role allocation
• internal factors gender differences

  feminism - patriarchal education

  interactionism - labelling

  gender socialisation - canalisation

  feminisation of curriculum - english doesn't appeal to boys
• social mobility

  functionalists - parsons, davis and moore meritocracy, universalistic standards

  marxism - favours elite

  feminism - patriarchal

  social mobility - cost of higher education

  halsey - class on achievement
• external factors gender differences 


  functionalism - meritocracy

  interactionism - labelling`

  feminism - patriarchal, limits aspirations

  marxism - willis

  internal - grouping benefits wc

  external - national curriculum, anti discimination