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Semester 2 Sociology
Semester 2 Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Family life cycle | The types of families and households an individual is likely to experience in their life |
| Nuclear family | Family consist of a mother, father and dependent children |
| Extended family | Family of three generations living together |
| Beanpole family | Nuclear family with one or two children who maintain regular contact with grandparents |
| Geographical mobility | The ability to move around the country as the reasons of the strength and appeal of nuclear family |
| Asian families characteristics | Nuclear family is the most typical form, arranged married, divorced are uncommon. |
| The reasons why mostly African Caribbean family are single parents | A legacy of slave trade, male underachievement that lead them to unemployment, and tradition. |
| The reasons for the growth of single parent | Divorced, greater social acceptance, The welfare state, an increase of never married single mother, changing attitudes towards married |
| The reason why single parents mostly headed by woman | Custody of children, man tend to have better job, it can threaten man's masculinity, woman are socialised to be nurturing and expected to be a mother |
| Critical views on single parents families | Functionalist and new right argue that they cannot provide adequate socialisation, depend on welfare state and its not fair for those who pay taxes, Mc Lanahan and Booth said children from single parent do less well at school |
| Positive views on single parents families | Many children from single parent family do well educationally, Cahsmore said one good parent is better that two bad parents, Feminist support their independence, most of woman do not choose to be single parent, other family types are not perfect either |
| Singleton | someone who live by themselves |
| Reconstituted family | Family consist of an adult couple, married or unmarried living with at least one child from previous relationship of one of the partner |
| Secularisation | People are less influenced by religion |
| Four vital function of family according to Murdock | Sexual, Reproductive, Economic, Educational |
| Talcott Parsons idea of family key functions | Primary socialisation, stabilitation of the adult personality |
| Warm bath theory | Family seen like warm bath where all cares and stresses of everyday life are soaked away |
| New right view on the family | criticized single parents families because of two factors: adequateness role model and cost too much in welfare benefits |
| Types of feminists | Liberal feminist, Radical feminist, Marxist feminist,and black feminist. |
| Radical Psychiatry view on the family | Nuclear family is too isolated, family can cause mental illness, parents are like capitalists and children become the workers |
| Marxism and the family view | Family is needed to ensure that capitalist can passed their property to the rightful heir, to control woman sexual behavior |
| Social policy | the law that made by the government |
| Functionalist views on the Social policy | Functionalist has positive view on social policy. Welfare state takes a lot of pressure off the family in education and health care |
| New right views on the Social policy | Take negative view on social policy because its undermining the nuclear family and support single parents |
| Feminist views on the social policy | Have both positive and negative views on social policy. Positive: support the divorced law and welfare benefits. Negative: many social policies still sexist and stereotyical |
| Marxist views on the social policy | Take negative view on social policy: the relation between capitalist and worker still unequal. Many social policies are the result of class struggle. |
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Melyda
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