Family Sociologists and their studies

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Question 1

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What year did Talcott Parsons publish his research?
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  • 1950
  • 1955
  • 1960
  • 1965

Question 2

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What were some of the points Parson made?
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  • The family has a fuctional 'fit' in society
  • The pre-industrial society was a nuclear family
  • The family performs 4 functions
  • The family performs 2 functions
  • Joint conjugal roles are a growing trend
  • There is a clear division in domestic labour
  • His work was published before Murdock
  • His work was published after Murdock
  • The wife plays the expressive role and husband instrumental role
  • Women working means they play the dual burden role

Question 3

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Who distingues between joint conjugal roles and segregated conjugal roles?
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  • Willmott and Young
  • Anne Oakely
  • Elizabeth Bott
  • Peter Murdock

Question 4

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Why did Anne Oakley criticise Young and Willmott's research?
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  • They ignore family diversity
  • Although men do housework, it wasn't symmetrical
  • They ignore patriarchy and that men still oppress women
  • fewer than 20% of husbands had a role in childcare

Question 5

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Fill in the gaps- the future foundations study ( A ) found that B% of men claimed to do more C% than their fathers, while D% of women claimed to do less B than their mothers.
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  • A- 1990 B- 60% C- childcare D- 75%
  • A- 2001 B-75% C- housework D- 60%
  • A-2000 B- 60% C- housework D- 75%
  • A-2000 B- 60% C- childcare D- 70%

Question 6

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Who distinguishes the notions between childhood in the middle ages and today?
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  • Neil Postman
  • Jane Pilcher
  • Phillip Aries
  • Linda Pollock

Question 7

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2 functionalists who think the families perform functions
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  • Parsons and Talcott
  • Murdock and Parsons
  • Zaretsky and Engles
  • Greer and Ansley

Question 8

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2 Marxists who believe the family only benefits the ruling class
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  • Talcott and Zaretsky
  • Engles and Monogamy
  • Greer and Zaretsky
  • Zaretsky and Engles

Question 9

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Peter townsend (1981) said-
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  • Problems in society lay in the esculating costs of health and social care for the elderly
  • Old age has beeen socially constructed as a period of dependency by creating age of retirement
  • We need to reverse the current trend towards earlier retirement

Question 10

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who said- Love and personal commitment are the most important things in a marriage -
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  • Wreeks
  • Allan and Crow
  • Mitchell and Goody
  • Tracey Reynolds

Question 11

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Who did Tracey Reynolds say still had role models without the presence of a father?
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  • Black extended families
  • White single parent families
  • The nuclear family
  • Black single parent families

Question 12

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"The growth of single parent families is a result of over generous welfare benefits"
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  • Charles Murray
  • Willmott and Young
  • Chester
  • Stacey

Question 13

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Who uses the life course analysis?
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  • Rapport and Rapport
  • Stacey
  • Hareven
  • Chester

Question 14

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The life course analysis is....
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  • The life of reproducing families is fixed and predictable
  • Family life isn't fixed and is flexible based on an individuals decisions
  • The life course is determined by the decisions of the individuals parents
  • The family is flexible but also predictable

Question 15

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Hilary Land (1978)
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  • Secularisation
  • The patriarchal family is no longer dominant, we have choice
  • Social policies assume the ideal family is the most dominant
  • See's social policies as the state controlling family

Question 16

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Donzelot argues social policy is a form of state control
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  • True
  • False
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