as sociology revision
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AS Sociology
Revision Session
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New Right
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New Right
Conservative Anti-Feminism Opposed to family
diversity Likes 'cereal packet'
family Dislike women outside
home Marriage essential for
social stability.
Name: Benson (2006) on family break down:
Married 6% Cohab 20% Closely
involved 74%
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Neo-Conventional Family
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Neo-Conventional Family
Name: Chester (1985) Doesnt see family diversity as significant. Move away from conventional family (New
Right) is the only important bit to Chester. Neo-convent family is dual earning with
both adults working. Similar to Young & Willmonts'
'symmetrical family'
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FIVE Types of Family Diversity
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FIVE Types of Family Diversity Name: Rapoports
1)Organisational Diversity
2)Cultural Diversity
3)Social Class Diversity
4)Life Stage Diversity
5)Generational Diversity
a. Cultural, religious ethnic all have diff. Structures.
b. How family roles are organised.
c. Older & younger have diff attitudes & experiences.
d. Key life events-- uni, marriage, first child, retired, widows etc...
e. Fam struct. Depends on income of household
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Life Course Analysis
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Life Course Analysis
Name: Tamara Hareven Focus on meanings people give to life events,
choices & decision.
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Risk Society
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Risk Society
• Name: U. Beck• Traditions have less influence on us.• More choice = risk• We are aware of that with greater choice
comes risk. Hence ‘Risk Society’• Gender equality: women expect equality in
workplace.• Individualism: actions out of self interest,
not obligation to others.
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Choice and Equality
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Choice and Equality
Name: Giddens Think Choice and Equality
Greater choice transforms family & marriage. Birth control (have kids when you want) Feminism= opportunities in work and education
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Family Practice
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Family Practice
Name David Morgan Experience of leaving home Becoming an adult.
Prefers concept of family practice –not family structure Its what we do– it’s a flexible idea (family) not a
rigid structure.
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Postmodernism and Family Diversity
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Posmodernism & Family Structure
• Name: David Cheal
– We no longer live in the modern world which is orderly and structured (like the nuclear family)
– Live in a chaotic post-modern stage.• Encourages family diversity
• No single type of family structure, but families plural
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Divorce Extended Family
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Divorce Extended Family
• Name: Stacey
– Greater choice freed women from patriarchal oppression.
– Women shape their families to their needs now.
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Growing Acceptance of Diversity
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Growing Acceptance of Diversity
• Long term shift since 1950s
• Sexual morality is a flexible personal choice.
– Sex before marriage.
– Baby outside marriage.
• Church and state have far less influence over us.
• Despite all this ‘progress’ family patterns remain traditional.
– Live as families/mum and dad/married/remarried.
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Favouring Diversity
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Favouring Diversity
• Who? Postmodernist & Feminists
• Reject New Right views
• Name: Weeks
– Whatever individuals decide is a family is a family.
– Family is not natural but socially constructed.
• Name: Stacey
– Brings about greater choice/diversity to families.
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Downside…
• Patriarchy and Class inequality are still seen today and restrict people’s choices to shape their family life.
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Against Diversity
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Against Diversity
• Functionalists & New Right
• Believe there is one ‘right’ best family structure.
– Name: Parsons’ instrumental and Expressive female household.
• Argue it is biological and thus natural the differences between men and women’s roles. Each has what they are better suited to.