Sociology Paper

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Sociology Paper

• The Family

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1a) Explain what is meant by the term Urbanisation

• There is usually a clue in the text to give you a
  good idea of what it means if you dont already.
  In this text it says related CHANGES such as
  Urbanisation Changes is a key word as it
  indicates to you what Urbanisation means.
• Your answer should look a bit like this
• Urbanisation is a term that describes the
  changes that result in an increased population in
  cities. It could refer to the movement of people
  from smaller locations or the countryside and
  into cities.

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1b) Identify two characteristics of the
privatised family.

• You will need to have done your revision but
  also the text helps you by giving you one. with
  industrialisation the family became a unit of
  consumption only
• One characteristic of a privatised family is
  that due to changes in society, the family no
  longer needs to rely on wider members of the
  family, so it does not have such significant
  links with wider kin. A further reason is that
  such a family is only a unit of consumption and
  there is no need to produce anymore.
• You do not HAVE to explain each one, but it may
  help you to do so briefly so the examiner
  understands what you are saying.

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1d) Identify and explain two criticisms of the
functionalist view of the relationship between
the family and industrialisation.

• One of the main functionalist views about family
  and Industrialisation is that Industrialisation
  resulted in the nuclear family being more common.
  This view suggests that due to Industrialisation
  people no longer lived together as large family
  units, but lived as a closer knit nuclear family.
  This view has been criticised by the historian
  Peter Laslett who found through his research that
  in fact, between 1564 and 1821 10 of households
  lived with wider members of their family. These
  figures were remarkably similar to households in
  Britain in 1981, indicating that the
  functionalist view is not true.Further to this,
  research by Michael Anderson has suggested that
  in fact, contrary to the functionalist view, the
  early stages of industrialisation actually
  increased the extended family. Anderson argues
  that as this was a time of widespread poverty and
  high death rates, people relied on their extended
  family for care and support. For example, many
  people relied on living with relatives to save
  money on rent.