This is a condensed summary of all you need to know for the Family topic. It includes a short outline of 20 mark essay plans as well as summaries of key theorists and their theories.
Key for shorthand
DDL = Domestic Division of Labour
W + Y = Wilmott and Young
(20) = A short outline of an...
Answer: 1. Parsons - Warm Bath
AO3: Marxist Feminist: Benston
2.Wilmott and Young
AO3: Ann Oakley
3.Vogler
AO3: Edgell
4.Black
AO3: Dobash and Dobash
2.
Family is still a patriarchal institution (20)
Answer: 1. Parsons - Warm Bath
AO3: Marxist Feminist: Benston
2.Wilmott and Young
AO3: Ann Oakley
3.Vogler
AO3: Edgell
4.Black
AO3: Dobash and Dobash
3.
Contemporary families = partnerships of equals (20)
Answer: 1. Parsons - Warm Bath
AO3: Marxist Feminist: Benston
2.Wilmott and Young
AO3: Ann Oakley
3.Vogler
AO3: Edgell
4.Black
AO3: Dobash and Dobash
4.
Relationships changed over the past 40 years (20)
Answer: 1. Parsons - Warm Bath
AO3: Marxist Feminist: Benston
2.Wilmott and Young
AO3: Ann Oakley
3.Vogler
AO3: Edgell
4.Black
AO3: Dobash and Dobash
5.
Childhood has improved (20)
Answer: 1. Aries and Shorter
2.Post-modernism: Jenks
3. Postman
AO3: Palmer
4.Bonke
AO3: Gittins
AO3: Control
6.
Contemporary families = child-centred (20)
Answer: 1. Aries and Shorter
2.Post-modernism: Jenks
3. Postman
AO3: Palmer
4.Bonke
AO3: Gittins
AO3: Control
7.
Sociological explanations for the status of childhood (20)
Answer: 1. Aries and Shorter
2.Post-modernism: Jenks
3. Postman
AO3: Palmer
4.Bonke
AO3: Gittins
AO3: Control
8.
Structural Approaches (20)
Answer: 1. Feminism: Kate Millet
AO3: Firestone
AO3: Less relevant due to increase in symmetrical families and new men
2. Functionalism
Murdock
AO3: Parson\'s - Warm Bath
AO3: Outdated women now working too and sex outside of a relationship is normal
3.Marxism
Zaretsky
AO3: Fran Ansley
4. Personal Life Perspective
Carol Smart
AO3: post-modernism : individualisation thesis
Answer: In 2013 , 14 % of all households consisted of an elderly person who lived alone
women lived longer = feminisation of later life
2.
Brannen
Answer: decline in birth rate and rise in life expectancy = beanpole family
elderly relatives look after grandchildren when adult children go to work
3.
Ross et. al
Answer: stronger relationships between grandparents and grandchildren - now a source of primary socialisation
4.
Phillipson
Answer: Elderly no longer contribute to capitalism = state unwilling to support so family has to - mainly women
5.
Chamberlain and Goulbourne
Answer: found an increasing amount of single parent families , which tended to be mother-headed in Afro-Caribbean families
Due to father\'s issues with employment and police
6.
Berthoud
Answer: 50% of Afro-Caribbean families headed by a single parent
7.
Aries and Shorter (March of Progress)
Answer: Childhood better than ever , more protection from harm and exploitation e.g. child abuse laws
more valued = due to higher living standards and smaller family sizes = parents can afford to support children
e.g. by 21st bday - £227,000
Child-centred - no longer \'seen and not heard\' in decision s
invest in children emotionally and financial and want better opportunities for them
8.
Gittins
Answer: Age patriarchy of adult domination which keeps children lower and dependent than adults
E.G. Child Labour laws = forced into dependency
9.
Control
Answer: curfew, daily routines , clothes they wear and access to resources
10.
Postman
Answer: Media exposes secrets of adult world i.e. sex and violence.
No longer an information hierarchy - 19th century printed word, no special skill needed now to access this information = blurring between adulthood and childhood= childhood is shorter
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FAMILY
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7. Sociological ex- 1. Aries and Shorter
planations for the
status of child- 2.Post-modernism: Jenks
hood (20)
3. Postman
AO3: Palmer
4.Bonke
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