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SUMMARY OF FAMILY QUESTIONS.
Two Mark Questions
Explain what is meant by the term ‘structurally isolated’ nuclear family.
Explain what is meant by ‘primary socialisation.
Explain what is meant by the term ‘patriarchal’ family.
Explain what is meant by the term ‘urbanisation’.
Explain briefly what is meant by an ‘expressive’ role.
Explain what is meant by the ‘gender division of labour’ in the family.
Explain what is meant by a ‘reconstituted’ family.
Explain what is meant by ‘serial monogamy’.
Four Mark Questions
Explain the difference between the infant mortality rate and the birth rate.
Suggest two reasons why the information from the studies in Item B might not give
an accurate picture of couple relationships in Britain today.
Explain the difference between joint and segregated conjugal roles.
Identify two characteristics of the ‘privatised’ family.
Identify two ways in which men may be ‘able to exploit and oppress women within
the family’.
Suggest two ways in which differences between childhood and adulthood may be
‘becoming blurred’.
Suggest two reasons why the number of first marriages might has fallen.
Suggest two ways in which marriage and cohabitation are becoming increasingly
similar.
Identify two criticisms made of the radical feminist view of the family.
Suggest two reasons why there has been an increase in cohabitation.
Six Mark Questions
Suggest three reasons why birth rates have fallen since the 19th century.
Identify three other functions of the family apart from the one referred to in Item A.
Suggest three reasons why the family may have become ‘symmetrical’.
Suggest three ways in which government policies might affect family life.
Suggest three functions that functionalists would see the family as performing.
Suggest three ways in which childhood may not be ‘a specially protected and
privileged time of life’.
Suggest three reasons why women are ‘now having fewer children than in the past’.
Suggest three reasons for ‘social class differences in child-rearing’.
Suggest three reasons why lone-parent families are usually headed by women.
Suggest three reasons why husbands may be more likely to take the more important
decisions.
Identify three ways in which childhood may not be a positive experience for some
children.
Descriptive Essays
Examine the contribution of Feminist sociologists to the study of family life.
Examine the extent of, and reasons for, family diversity in today’s society.
Examine the reasons for changes in the patterns of marriage, cohabitation and divorce
in the last thirty years.
Examine some of the reasons for the diversity of families and households in Britain
today.
Examine the extent of, and reasons for, changes in the position of children since
industrialisation.
Examine the ways in which social policies and laws may influence families and
households.
Examine the reasons for the changes in the position of children in the family and
society.
Examine the reasons for, and the consequences of , the fall in the death rate since
1900.
Evaluative Essays
Using material from Item B and elsewhere, assess the view that industrialisation led to
the nuclear family replacing the extended family as the main form of household
structure.
Using material from Item B and elsewhere, assess the view that ‘the division of labour
within couples has become more or less equal.
Using material……. assess the view that despite industrialisation and urbanisation,
‘the extended family never disappeared and… it continues to thrive today’.
Using material…… assess the view that it no longer makes sense to talk about the
‘patriarchal’ family.
Using material…… assess the view that marriage remains a patriarchal institution.
Using material…… assess the view that the extended family remains as important
now as it was in the past.
Using material……, assess sociological explanations for the increase in the number of
divorces since the 1960’s.
Using material…….assess the view that, in today’s society, the family is losing its
functions.