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Chester (functionalist) |
Change from conventional to new-conventional family which is dual earner. The nuclear family remains the ideal. People are not in nuclear families because of life cycle even widows or divorced men |
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Patterns identified by Robert Chester |
Most people live in married couple headed household. Most still marry and have children and children are reared by their natural parents. Most marry until death. Cohabitation increase is because it is a temporary stage before marriage. Births outside marriage have increased but most parents are jointly registered. |
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Anthony Giddens (postmodernist) |
Family and marriage have been transformed by greater choice and a more equal relationship between men and women becaus of : 1) contraception which has allowed for sex and intimacy rather than reproduction(plastic sexuality) 2) women's independence because of feminism has lead to greater opportunities. Relationships are now pure as people stay together for love and not tradition |
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Judith Stacey (postmodernist) |
Greater choice has benefitted women as they are fre from patriarchal oppression. A new type of chosen family is the divorce extended family: The family members are connected by divorce May include former in laws Can help each other financially and domestically |
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David Cheal (postmodernist) |
We no longer live in a predictable modern world but a chaotic postmodern stage. Family structures are fragmented giving people more choice. |
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Morgan (postmodernist) |
Doesn't make sense to make broad generalisations about the family like functionalist so do. We should focus on how people create their own diverse family lives and practices |
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Rhonda and Robert rapoport |
We can choose from a variety of family types: 1) organisational diversity- eg segregated conjugal roles 2) Cultural diversity-eg female headed Afro Caribbean households 3) social class diversity- income differs between households of diff classes. Differences in child rearing practices 3) life stage diversity- eg newly weds 4) generational diversity- diff attitudes reflect historical period in which a person was brought up. |
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Eversly and Bonnerjea |
Agree with rapoports but believe there is also regional diversity eg mobile southern family with two parents vs kinship based rural family How're it may be useful to focus on areas. In which single parenting is hig-inner city- and the idea that the classic working class extended family still exists in many towns. |
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Reasons for family diversity |
Changes in law, secularisation, women's financial independence, individual choice, immigration |
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Consequences of family diversity |
New right- creating social problems eg crime Feminists-allows escape from domestic abuse Impact on taxation-more benefits to single parents Increase in single person households has an impact on housing |
