Families Mindmap
- Created by: eleanorcooperxo
- Created on: 10-02-17 17:13
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- Families
- Family Diversity
- Lone-parent Family
- Beanpole Family
- Nuclear Family
- Extended Family
- Same-sex Family
- Reconstituted Family
- The Domestic Division of Labour
- When the two gender roles and split and both genders take part in the same roles. Such as there being a equal split on who cooks dinner.
- The Triple Shift
- When the mother does three separate roles; housework, parenting and employment working
- Four Main Function of the Nuclear Family
- Reproduction
- Socialisation
- Emotional Support
- Economic Support
- Sociological Approaches to the Family
- New Right
- A more modern approach of functionalism
- Believe the Nuclear family can provide children with the right type of socialisation due to there being two gender roles.
- View the family as negative if it isn't the Nuclear family. Also believe that same-sex and lone-parent families are negative for society to function properly.
- Marxists
- Negative towards society.
- Convinces the working class to accept that the classes are unequal
- Functionalist
- See the family as good for the society and supports the Nuclear family.
- Feminism
- Feminists are against the Nuclear family and have very little support to a male same sex family.
- They believe that same sex and Nuclear families are patriarchal and that the male benefits more.
- They support the lone-parent family.
- View family as negative for society due to the view that families are patriarchal.
- New Right
- Co-habitation
- When couples starts families or live together but do not marry
- Significant raise in co-habitation
- Happening due to secularisation, Religion and getting married is becoming less important.
- Household Sizes Decreasing
- Women are living longer than men.
- Increase in life expectancy due to modernisation in medicine/health.
- Women choosing career over family.
- Increase In Same-Sex Families
- Less stigma on gay couples.
- Gay marriage became legal.
- Increase In Lone-parent Families
- Divorce Act 1960 made getting a divorce more easy.
- Women gave have a child without a man, through IVF.
- Increase in teen pregnanies
- Less stigma on divorces
- Family Diversity
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