Mindmap – Overview of Families and Households Topic 2: Marriage, Divorce and Cohabitation
Test Yourself – Concepts test Short answer questions
Families and Households, Marriage, Divorce and Cohabitation
Families and Households
Essay plans, Families and Households
Essay Plan: Assess the reasons for the long term increase in the divorce rate (20)
Assess the reasons for the long term increase in the divorce rate (20) This essay looks at social policies such as
Essay plans, Families and Households, Marriage, Divorce and Cohabitation
Marriage and Cohabitation Essay Plan
An essay plan that should be sufficient to get you into the top mark band Examine some of the reasons for
Essay plans, Families and Households, Functionalism
Family essay plan – Modern nuclear family….
Assess the view that the modern nuclear family is the most effective type of family unit in which to socialise
Families and Households, New Right
The New Right View of the Family
The New Right believe the traditional nuclear family is the ideal type of family. They support social policies which encourage nuclear families – they are pro marriage and against benefits for single mothers.
Families and Households, Postmodernism and Late Modernsim
Late modern perspectives on the family
The pure relationship and the negotiated family become the new family norms. Choice but within structure.
Feminist Perspectives on the Family
A summary of liberal, marxist and radical feminist views on the traditional nuclear family
Families and Households, Marxism
The Marxist Perspective on The Family
Engels believed the nuclear family emerged with capitalism and private property, contemporary Marxists argue the family performs ideological functions.
The Functionalist Perspective on the Family
Functionalists focus on the positive functions of the nuclear family, such as secondary socialisation and the stabilisation of adult personalities.