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AS Sociology
Revision Session
New Right
New Right
Conservative Anti-Feminism Opposed to family
diversity Likes 'cereal packet'
family Dislike women outside
home Marriage essential for
social stability.
Name: Benson (2006) on family break down:
Married 6% Cohab 20% Closely
involved 74%
Neo-Conventional Family
Neo-Conventional Family
Name: Chester (1985) Doesnt see family diversity as significant. Move away from conventional family (New
Right) is the only important bit to Chester. Neo-convent family is dual earning with
both adults working. Similar to Young & Willmonts'
'symmetrical family'
FIVE Types of Family Diversity
FIVE Types of Family Diversity Name: Rapoports
1)Organisational Diversity
2)Cultural Diversity
3)Social Class Diversity
4)Life Stage Diversity
5)Generational Diversity
a. Cultural, religious ethnic all have diff. Structures.
b. How family roles are organised.
c. Older & younger have diff attitudes & experiences.
d. Key life events-- uni, marriage, first child, retired, widows etc...
e. Fam struct. Depends on income of household
Life Course Analysis
Life Course Analysis
Name: Tamara Hareven Focus on meanings people give to life events,
choices & decision.
Risk Society
Risk Society
• Name: U. Beck• Traditions have less influence on us.• More choice = risk• We are aware of that with greater choice
comes risk. Hence ‘Risk Society’• Gender equality: women expect equality in
workplace.• Individualism: actions out of self interest,
not obligation to others.
Choice and Equality
Choice and Equality
Name: Giddens Think Choice and Equality
Greater choice transforms family & marriage. Birth control (have kids when you want) Feminism= opportunities in work and education
Family Practice
Family Practice
Name David Morgan Experience of leaving home Becoming an adult.
Prefers concept of family practice –not family structure Its what we do– it’s a flexible idea (family) not a
rigid structure.
Postmodernism and Family Diversity
Posmodernism & Family Structure
• Name: David Cheal
– We no longer live in the modern world which is orderly and structured (like the nuclear family)
– Live in a chaotic post-modern stage.• Encourages family diversity
• No single type of family structure, but families plural
Divorce Extended Family
Divorce Extended Family
• Name: Stacey
– Greater choice freed women from patriarchal oppression.
– Women shape their families to their needs now.
Growing Acceptance of Diversity
Growing Acceptance of Diversity
• Long term shift since 1950s
• Sexual morality is a flexible personal choice.
– Sex before marriage.
– Baby outside marriage.
• Church and state have far less influence over us.
• Despite all this ‘progress’ family patterns remain traditional.
– Live as families/mum and dad/married/remarried.
Favouring Diversity
Favouring Diversity
• Who? Postmodernist & Feminists
• Reject New Right views
• Name: Weeks
– Whatever individuals decide is a family is a family.
– Family is not natural but socially constructed.
• Name: Stacey
– Brings about greater choice/diversity to families.
Downside…
• Patriarchy and Class inequality are still seen today and restrict people’s choices to shape their family life.
Against Diversity
Against Diversity
• Functionalists & New Right
• Believe there is one ‘right’ best family structure.
– Name: Parsons’ instrumental and Expressive female household.
• Argue it is biological and thus natural the differences between men and women’s roles. Each has what they are better suited to.