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Category Archives: Family diversity
Conceptualizing Family Diversity
Both Functionalist and Marxist Sociologists theorised that the nuclear family was central to most people’s experiences in modern industrial society. However, recent research has suggested that postmodern societies are characterised by a plurality, or diversity, of household and family types, … Continue reading
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Tagged beck, diversity, family, Rapoport
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How have families and households become more diverse?
Brief revision notes on family diversity for A-level sociology students studying families and households. Continue reading
Posted in A-levels, Families and Households, Family diversity, Revision
Tagged A level, Family diversity, notes, Revision, Sociology
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Defining the Family
Functionalist Sociologist George Peter Murdock used the following definition of the family as a starting point in his classic cross national study of families in more than 250 societies. ‘A social group characterised by common residence, economic cooperation and reproduction. … Continue reading
Families and Households in the UK – Social Trends
This post summaries some of the changing trends (and continuities) in family and household structure in the UK, using data from the Office for National Statistics which collects a range of data annually on families and households in the UK The … Continue reading
Sociological Perspectives on Single Person Households
Why are increasing numbers of people all over the world living alone? (Scroll down for a video summary) According to a recent book by Eric Klinenberg: Explaining the Rise of Solo Living, this is a global phenomenon and mainly reflects … Continue reading
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Tagged going solo, households, revise sociology, single people
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The Sociology of Personal Life
The personal life perspective on the family is essentially an Interactionist perspective and makes two basic criticisms of structural perspectives such as Functionalism, Marxism and Feminism’. Carol Smart is the main thinker associated with this perspective. ‘They tend to … Continue reading
Why Do so Many Twenty Somethings Live with Their Parents?
For the video version of what’s below please click here This post is designed to help you revise the ‘increasing family diversity‘ of the AS Sociology families and households module 1. Not quite adults – Vital Statistics According to the Office … Continue reading
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Tagged economic factors, KIdults, Kippers
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Examining how family life varies by ethnicity in the UK
I’ll repopulate what’s below with links when I get a chance! Data from the latest (2011) census shows that 86% of the UK population are classified as ‘white’, 7.5% as ‘Asian’ or ‘Asian-British’, 3.3% as’ Black’, 2.2% as ‘Mixed’ and … Continue reading
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Tagged African-Caribbean, Asian, birth rates, equality, marriage, mixed-race couples
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Evaluating the view that the nuclear family is in decline (part 3/3)
Some commentators argue that the extent of ever increasing family diversity has been exaggerated Robert Chester – The Neo-Conventional Family Robert Chester (1985) recognises that there has been some increased family diversity in recent years. However, unlike the new right, … Continue reading