WJEC GCSE Sociology - Key Thinkers (Families) - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Two irreducible functions of the modern family - Primary socialisation and stabilisation of adult personalities - and the "warm bath" theory	Talcott Parsons	100%
Four functions of the family - Reproduction, Primary socialisation, Satisfied sex drive, Economic provision	George Murdock	75%
The "dual burden" where women do both paid work and unpaid domestic labour	Ann Oakley	50%
The "triple shift" - the dual burden plus emotional support/childcare	Duncombe and Marsden	50%
Researched domestic violence in the UK and argues that it is rooted in a culture where women are seen as inferior	Sylvia Walby	50%
The rise of the symmetrical family and joint conjugal roles due to stratified diffusion	Willmott and Young	50%
Confluent love - now acceptable to leave a relationship once it is not enjoyable, which leads to an increase in divorce and serial monogamy	Anthony Giddens	25%
Lone-parent families mean boys have no role model and will become criminals	Charles Murray	25%
Women contribute the most to the family but men benefit because the traditional family is patriarchal and serves only male interests	Delphy and Leonard	25%
The family is a unit of consumption, children have "pester power" and the family perpetuates capitalism through inheritance	Eli Zaretsky	25%
Roles of money management within marriage	Jan Pahl	25%
Childhood as a social construct and changing ideas about childhood over time	Philippe Ariès	25%
The rise of family diversity in the UK	Rapoport and Rapoport	25%
Criticised the above, saying that the extent of family diversity is exaggerated and said that the nuclear family has morphed into the "neo-conventional family"	Robert Chester	25%
The emergence of "toxic childhood" due to education, social media and consumerism	Sue Palmer	25%

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