families and households sociologists - Statistics

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		% Correct
functional fit theory, warm bath theory + irreducible functions of the family	Parsons	100%
functions of the family - sex, money, reproduction (sex) + socialisation	Murdock	90%
early society was primate communism - classless without private property	Marx	80%
childhood is disappearing + children are becoming more similar to adults	Postman	80%
childhood is socially constructed, children used to be mini adults w/out childhood	Aries	70%
toxic childhood - rapid cultural + technological changes have harmed children	Palmer	70%
wives are the "takers of shit" - husbands letting out anger from exploitative work	Ansley	60%
the negotiated family - members negotiate their roles in relationship	Beck	60%
the zombie family - externally appear alive but is dead, an empty shell	Beck	60%
increased choice and equality in relationships due to feminism + contraception	Giddens	60%
the pure relationship - relationship exists only to satisfy each partners needs	Giddens	60%
same sex couples are pioneers as they don't have traditional gender roles	Giddens	60%
individualisation thesis - traditional structures in society lost influence on us	Giddens + Beck	60%
welfare benefits bad as they encourage lone parent households + dependency	Murray	60%
patriarchal society allows violence towards wives as they are seen as property	Dobash + Dobash	50%
men and womens roles are not fixed in biology but due to social factors	Oakly	50%
the preindustrial family was nuclear, not extended as functionalists suggest	Young + Willmott	50%
social policy is a form of state power and allows control over the family	Donzelot	40%
the connectedness thesis - relationships are interconnected, affect each other	Smart	40%
family have illusion of haven from work but women face domestic servitude	Zaretsky	40%
the neo-conventional family with dual earner couple replaced nuclear family	Chester	30%
rate of family breakdown higher in cohabiting couples than married couples	Benson	20%
matrilocal all-female households should be created to replace hetrosexual ones	Greer	20%
postmodern families - more diverse + based on active decisions	Stacey	20%
the symmetrical family where all responsibilities are divided equally	Young + Willmott	20%
new right perspective on social policy, policies should promote nuclear family	Almond	10%
families separated geographically still have close bonds eg the beanpole family	Bell	10%
gender regimes - social policy can be familistic (traditional) or individualistic	Drew	10%
people place higher expectations on marriage + divorce if marriage is unhappy	Fletcher	10%
living apart together couples are in committed relationships but not cohabiting	Duncan + Phillips	0%
paranoid parenting where parents obsessed over threats to their children	Furedi	0%
state unwilling to support elderly as of no use to capitalism so female relatives do	Phillipson	0%

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