patterns

Neo-conventional family

Chester- dual earner family that is still nuclear structure

Which sociologist identified 5 types of family diversity

Rapoport family

Rapoport family

1. Organisational

2. Cultural

3. Social class

4. Life-stage

Organisational diversity

Difference in family roles and structures

What does Stacey argue

Postmodernist view- families are becoming more diverse and women have greater freedom

Personal life perspective

Relationships beyond traditional family are important

Which sociologist is linked to personal life perspective

Carol smart

What does personal life perspective criticise

Focusing only on traditional nuclear families

Divorce rates since 1960s

Increased significantly

Cohabilitation

Couples living together without being married

Pattern in cohabitation

Become more common

Lone parent families

Family with one parent raising children

Extended family

Family including relatives beyond parents and children

Reconstituted family

Stepfamily formed after divorce or separation

What is secularisation and how does it effect family patterns

Declining religious influence has reduced pressure to marry traditionally

How has women’s increased employment affected family patterns?

Women have gained greater independence and choice in relationships

One Criticism of family diversity view

Some sociologists argue the nuclear family is still the dominant family type

What is legal aid 1949

Lowered cost of divorce

New right view on divorce

Undesirable as it undermines marriage and nuclear family. High divorce rates create growing underclass of welfare independent mums

Stonewall campaign

For lesbian gay and bisexual rights

Ethnic differences

South Asian families- larger families- contain up to 3 generations

Black Caribbean- higher proportion of lone parent families, and high rate female headed families.

Feminist view on divorce

P- equal rights and equality

N- presents divorce as glorified and not showing effect on families