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Family diversity - Coggle Diagram
Family diversity
Social class and family diversity
Postmodernists - social class no longer shapes life
Crompton - 'class reproduction' most children will follow their parent into the same class.
Bourdieu - 'cultural capital' cultural knowledge that can help children do better in education and the work place
Katz et al - stress of living in poverty makes it hard to raise children
Gillies - Middle class parenting will uses a range of resources, emphasize children's individualities and will feel confident when dealing with teachers. Whereas working class will find copping strategies, also will try not to get their kid seen as special and will be reluctant for a diagnosis
Sexuality and family diversity
Giddens - greater freedom to choose what we want
Weeks, Donovan and Heaphy - homosexual couple see their families as chosen than predetermined by blood
Calhoun - lesbian relationships are paving the way from the traditional male dominated society
Only 69,000 same sex couple as opposed to 2,893,000 opposite sex couples
Park et al - 29%in BAS still say same sex is wrong or mostly wrong
Ethnicity and family diversity
Southasian families
Ballard- from the 1950s onwards migrating south Asian families brought traditions to the uk including ender roles, larger families, arranged marriages and a strong sense of honor
Berthoud - found south Asian families are more traditional than white families
African - Caribbean families
Berthoud and Beishan - lower rates of formal marriage higher rates of separation and divorce
Chamberlain - above points are misleading as extended family would provide support
Reynolds- visiting relationship where lone mothers would have a male partner visit