Modern Family
- Created by: ecotts
- Created on: 14-05-17 19:14
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- Modern Family
- Family diversity
- Rapports argue that family diversity is a feature of modern society
- Nuclear family has declined in the uk over 40 years
- Now a pluralistic society with more diversity
- 5 family types
- Organisational
- Difference in way family roles are organised
- Cultural
- Differences in cultural, religious and ethic groups have different structures
- Social
- difference in family structure partly the result of income differences between households or social classes
- Life stage
- Structure differed according to the stage reached in life cycle, newly wed, widow etc
- Generational
- Older and younger generations have different attitudes and experiences that reflect historical periods in which they have lived
- Organisational
- Neo-conventional
- Increased family diversity but not significant as others make out
- Importance of family diversity exaggerated
- Its a nuclear family but with a division of labour between men and women
- Dual- earner family
- nuclear family is still the family to aspire to
- Increased family diversity but not significant as others make out
- Family diversity
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