GCSE Sociology

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GCSE Sociology

• Revision Quiz (Family)

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Family Types

• What is a nuclear family?
• What is a reconstituted family?
• What is a vertically extended family?
• What is a horizontally extended family?
• What is en empty nest family?
• What is an empty shell marriage?
• What is a lone parent family?
• What is a same sex family?

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Marriage Types

• What is polygamy?
• What is polygyny?
• What is polyandry?

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Functions of the family

• What are the 4 main functions of the family
  according to the Functionalist theory?
• What are the functions of the family according to
  Marxist theory?
• What are the functions of the family according to
  Feminist theory?
• What are the functions of the family according to
  the New Right?
• What are the functions of the family according to
  Radical Psychiatrists?

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Marriage Divorce

• What has been the general trend in marriage rates
  since 1971?
• What percentage of all marriages account for
  remarriages?
• What is the general trend in divorce rates since
  1971?
• Give three reasons why marriage might be less
  popular today?
• What is the general trend in cohabitation and
  illegitimate births?

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Lone Parents

• Give two possible reasons for the increase in the
  number of lone parents?
• What percentage of children today are in lone
  parent families?
• What does the high number of reconstituted
  families tell us about marriage?
• In what year did same-sex marriages become legal
  in the UK?

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Ageing The Family

• What two factors have led to an ageing population
  in the UK?
• What is the burden of dependency?
• Give two positive consequences of an ageing
  population?
• Give two negative consequences of an ageing
  population?

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Fertility Patterns

• Give 3 examples of the ways in which fertility
  treatments can be used in the family
• Why might women increasingly need to use
  fertility treatments in the future?
• How does the decline of religion in society
  impact upon the use of fertility treatments?

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Conjugal Roles

• What are conjugal roles?
• What is the division of labour?
• What are integrated conjugal roles?
• What are segregated conjugal roles?
• What is a symmetrical family?
• What is the dual burden?
• What is the triple shift?
• What is the new man?
• What did Wilmott Youngs study tell us about
  conjugal roles?
• How can Wilmott Young be criticised?

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Grandparents Children

• Why is it the case that future generations are
  more likely to have a relationship with their
  grandparents?
• What three types of support do grandparents
  typically offer?
• How does the relationship we have with our
  grandparents differ from that we have with our
  parents?
• Give 4 factors which have changed the position of
  children in society today

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Dark side of the family

• What do sociologists mean by the dark side of the
  family?
• Are men or women more likely to be abusive to
  their partners?
• Which three groups are most likely to be victims
  of domestic abuse and why?
• Why are statistics on male victims of domestic
  abuse likely to be inaccurate?
• What do we mean when we say that the family is a
  private institution?