Assess sociological explanations of the nature and extent of family diversity today (24 marks) Rhona and Robert Rapoport (1982) argue that diversity is of central importance in understanding family life today. They believe that we have moved away from the traditional nuclear family as the dominant family type‚ to a range of different diverse types. Families in Britain have adapted to a pluralistic society; a society in which cultures and lifestyles are more diverse. In their view‚ family diversification
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-Using material from item A and elsewhere assess the contribution of functionalism to our understanding of families and households. A core component of the functionalist perspective is the belief that the family is a major sub-system of society. George Peter Murdock for instance‚ declares that the family performs four essential functions that serve the requirements of its inner members and also larger society. The item mentions two of these functions: ‘the stable satisfaction of sex drive’‚ which
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iAssess the view that the modern family has become more children centred. Some sociologists argue that the modern family has become more children centred. This is mainly due to the changes in laws restricting child labour and excluding children from paid work. This is because from about the 10th to the 13th century the idea of childhood did not exist. According to Aries in the middle ages childhood as a separate age-stage was short. Children entered wider society on the same terms as adults. Even
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Assess the contribution of feminist theorists and researchers to an understanding of society today. 33 Marks Feminists are a political movement who focus on the oppression of women and the struggle to end it. They believe that sociology has traditionally taken a ‘malestream’ view which ignores women. Feminism is a fairly new concept and it examines the women’s experiences and study society from a female perspective. In many of the original theories of sociology women were invisible and didn’t appear
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Functions of the family Key terms Expressive role- Parsons term for the female function of a mother/housewife‚ looking after children‚ emotional work and caring Instrumental role- Parsons term for the male breadwinner‚ working and earning money for the family Industrialisation- when society moved from agricultural production to industrial manufacturing Nuclear family-a family that consists of a mother‚ father and their dependent children Extended family- a nuclear family with the addition
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result of society identifying and labelling a phase of life. No child experiences exactly the same childhood at exactly the same period of time in their life. In turn childhood should be distinguished from biological life stages. How we treat children‚ expect them to behave‚ look and develop all vary depending on the time and place in which the society lies‚ therefore childhood is a social construction. One view sociologists take on childhood‚ is the march of progress view. This view argues that
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Asses the view that gender differences in achievement are largely the result of changes in the education system There are both Internal and External factors which help influence gender differences in achievement through the changes in the education system. There are a number of internal factors within the education system which contribute towards the different gender achievement. It is shown that Girls always achieve better results than boys‚ however both sexes results have improved over the
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Assess sociological explanations of the nature and extent of family diversity today. (24 marks) In today’s society‚ there are various alternatives from the typical family type. The top examples of these are lone-parent‚ cohabitation and reconstituted. But there are also some others such as same sex couples‚ single parent and multi-cultural families. There has been a decrease in the number of nuclear families in the UK and an increase in various other families such as single parent families. But
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to Lit – 1st Period 5 November 2012 Racism Today Discrimination against other races is very common in society today. 2007 Yale University did a study showing a black man who murdered a white man is three times more likely to receive the death penalty than a white man who killed a black man (11 Facts). Some people might think racism has stopped since the Civil Rights Act‚ but discrimination against minority races is still prevalent in society today. The Civil Rights Act was established in 1964
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Examine the different functions performed by the family for the individual and society. According to society the family performs many different and important functions for society and individuals. I will examine the views of Functionalism‚ the New Right and Marxist and identify the functions performed by the family for individuals and society. What is meant by Functionalism? Functionalists see society as a social system made up of interrelated and inter-dependant institutions e.g. education
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