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UNIT 4 Family - Coggle Diagram
UNIT 4 Family
Types of families
Reconstituted family
Same sex family
Extended family
Vertically extended family
Horizontally extended family
Modified extended family
Beanpole family
Lone-Parent family
Nuclear family
Polygamous family
Empty nest family
Boomerang family
Childless family
Demographic factors
Family size
Birth rate
Life expectancy
Fertility rate
Secularisation
Death rate
Ageing population
Having children later in life
Types of marriages
Arranged marriage
Love marriage
Same-sex marriage
Empty shell marriage
Monogamy
Serial monogamy
Polygamy
Alternative families
Single person household
Shared household
Friends as family
Role of the family for the individual and society
Functionalists (concensus theory)
Socialisation
Stabilization of adult personalities
Warm bath theory
Marxism
Conflict theory
Inheritance of property
Ideological functions
Unit of consumption
Reproduces class inequality
Feminism
Conflict theory
Patriarchy
Domestic labour inequality
Emotional work
Violence
Different strands (liberal, marxist, radical)
Variations and diversity in the family
Social class
Upper class
Middle class
Lower class
Cross cultural
Confucian East Asian
Sub-Saharan African
South Asian
Islamic West/North African
South East Asian
Christian-European
Creole
Ethnicity
Sociological perspectives on family diversity
New right view
changes that have undermined the family's functions
Thr growth of lone parent families
Easier availability of divorce
Cohabitation
The rise if feminism
Women going out to work
Say that we need to return to the nuclear family
Post modernist
See the family diversity positively