AQA Sociology A-Level Paper 2
Functionalism and Family 20m plan ANS:Primary socialisation - Parsons
Stabilisation of adult personalities - Parsons
Functional fit - Parsons
Economic - Murdock
Warm bath theory
Marxism and Family 20m plan ANS:Ideological control
Inheritance of property
Unit of consumption
Reproduction of workforce
Feminism and Family 20m plan ANS:Social policy
DDL
Power and DA
Divorce/marriage - women's rights
New Right + Family 20m plan ANS:Lone parents breed delinquents
Policy should promote the nuclear family
Same sex couple act (not traditional)
Welfare dependency
Postmodernism + family 20m plan ANS:Social policy
Life course analysis
Sociology of personal life
Risk society
Fallacy of choice - surveillance and policy
Social Policy + family (tailor answers to question) 20m plan ANS:Divorce reform act
,Same sex marriage act
Contraception act
Equal pay act
Education acts
Children's Act
Married persons tax allowance
Theory views
Gender Division of Labour 20m plan ANS:Gender DDL
Symmetrical family (equal roles)
Dual burden/triple shift
Commercialisation of housework
Power relationships and domestic violence 20m plan ANS:still patriarchal - dual burden/triple shift
Decision making (men take role)
DA
Power difference between child and adult
Demographics - birth rates 20m plan ANS:Cost
Women working
Decline in infant mortality
Child-centred society
Lack of need for jobs in children sector
Demographics - death rates 20m plan ANS:Better health care
burden on women
Ageing population
Grey pound
Support with childcare- allows women to work
, Demographics - migration 20m plan ANS:Push factors
Pull factors
Impact - positive (diversity/skilled workers)
Impact - negative (strain on services/increased racism)
Singlehood/Cohabitation/marriage/divorce 20m plan ANS:Secularisation (less religion)
Social policy
Feminism
Changing attitudes - higher expectations
Decrease in divorce 20m plan ANS:Cohabitation
Symmetrical family
Equal pay/women's independence
Getting married later
Childhood - improving 20m plan ANS:smaller families
More child centred
Better services - health, education etc.
Children's right and laws
Childhood - getting worse 20m plan ANS:Toxic childhood
Age patriarchy
Legal controls over children
Stress and anxiety increased
Childhood - disappearing/blurring 10m plan ANS:becoming more adult like - clothes/makeup/activities
Children have access to adult knowledge and material
Childhood - social construction 20m plan ANS:Cross cultural differences
Historical differences
Difference in the same society - class/gender/ethnicity
Functionalism and Family 20m plan ANS:Primary socialisation - Parsons
Stabilisation of adult personalities - Parsons
Functional fit - Parsons
Economic - Murdock
Warm bath theory
Marxism and Family 20m plan ANS:Ideological control
Inheritance of property
Unit of consumption
Reproduction of workforce
Feminism and Family 20m plan ANS:Social policy
DDL
Power and DA
Divorce/marriage - women's rights
New Right + Family 20m plan ANS:Lone parents breed delinquents
Policy should promote the nuclear family
Same sex couple act (not traditional)
Welfare dependency
Postmodernism + family 20m plan ANS:Social policy
Life course analysis
Sociology of personal life
Risk society
Fallacy of choice - surveillance and policy
Social Policy + family (tailor answers to question) 20m plan ANS:Divorce reform act
,Same sex marriage act
Contraception act
Equal pay act
Education acts
Children's Act
Married persons tax allowance
Theory views
Gender Division of Labour 20m plan ANS:Gender DDL
Symmetrical family (equal roles)
Dual burden/triple shift
Commercialisation of housework
Power relationships and domestic violence 20m plan ANS:still patriarchal - dual burden/triple shift
Decision making (men take role)
DA
Power difference between child and adult
Demographics - birth rates 20m plan ANS:Cost
Women working
Decline in infant mortality
Child-centred society
Lack of need for jobs in children sector
Demographics - death rates 20m plan ANS:Better health care
burden on women
Ageing population
Grey pound
Support with childcare- allows women to work
, Demographics - migration 20m plan ANS:Push factors
Pull factors
Impact - positive (diversity/skilled workers)
Impact - negative (strain on services/increased racism)
Singlehood/Cohabitation/marriage/divorce 20m plan ANS:Secularisation (less religion)
Social policy
Feminism
Changing attitudes - higher expectations
Decrease in divorce 20m plan ANS:Cohabitation
Symmetrical family
Equal pay/women's independence
Getting married later
Childhood - improving 20m plan ANS:smaller families
More child centred
Better services - health, education etc.
Children's right and laws
Childhood - getting worse 20m plan ANS:Toxic childhood
Age patriarchy
Legal controls over children
Stress and anxiety increased
Childhood - disappearing/blurring 10m plan ANS:becoming more adult like - clothes/makeup/activities
Children have access to adult knowledge and material
Childhood - social construction 20m plan ANS:Cross cultural differences
Historical differences
Difference in the same society - class/gender/ethnicity
