would say that social policy is a good thing for family life. With the changes in social policy‚ it encourages diversity within the family. For example the divorce law has made it easier and cheaper for women to get divorced‚ which means has had a knock on effect with families. The way it’s had a knock on effect is that there have been more divorces‚ less people getting married first time‚ and more people getting married for the second time‚ which is called the reconstitued family. You also have
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Examine the ways in which feminism has contributed to our understanding of families Feminists take critical views of the family as they argue it oppresses women and therefore creates issues such as unequal divisions of domestic labour and domestic violence against women. Feminists believe that there is a ‘triple burden’ of paid work‚ domestic labour and emotional work. Also gender inequality is not regarded as natural or inevitable‚ but something that has been created by society. Feminists also
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Examine some of the ways in which the role of fathers in families has changed The domestic division of labour refers to the roles that men and women play in relation to housework‚ childcare and paid work. According to familial ideology‚ the nuclear family is most successful when there is a clear segregation (separation and distinction from one another) of gender roles. In Talcott Parson’s functionalist model‚ there is a clear division between the spouses’ role. The husband is said to have an instrumental
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Examining Family Diversity and the Life Course Many years ago‚ Parsons studied families from different type and decided that through structural differentiation‚ the multifunctional extended family became the nuclear family‚ and made a point of focusing on this type of family. Marxism also made this mistake‚ as well as feminism. What these approaches didn’t take into account was that there are many other types of family out there‚ which is even truer in contempary society. This essay will attempt
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Critically examine the extent to which the Rule of Law (ROL) has been implemented in Zimbabwe in an attempt to resolve conflicts and peace making in the Government of National Unity (GNU) The term Rule of Law (ROL) has been defined differently by different scholars hence the varying interpretations and interpretations and implementation by different governments. It is against this background that this monograph would like to examine the extent to which the ROL has been implemented in Zimbabwe from
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impact of state policies and laws on family life State policies and laws have always had huge impacts on family life. As state policies and laws have changed over the years‚ so have the types of family that we see in society. Sometimes the laws and policies that our set by the government turn out to have unintended impacts on the family life. Many groups of sociologists believe that different laws and policies are set for different reasons. One huge law that impacted on family life in the UK was
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EXAMINE SOCIOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS OF THE WAYS IN WHICH ETHNICITY MAY SHAPE SOCIAL IDENTITY INTRO: DEFINE CONCEPTS OF ETHNICITY AND SOCIAL IDENTITY. FEATURES OF ETHNIC MINORITY IDENTITY: PHYSICAL FEATURES SUCH AS SKIN COLOUR; SHARED LANGUAGE; RELIGIOUS BELIEFS; EXPERIENCE OF RACISM. ETHNICITY MAY BE SOURCE OF SOCIAL INEQUALITY (DESPITE ANTI-DISCRIMINATION LEGISLATION) – IMPACT LIFE CHANCES OF MEMBERS OF E/MIN GROUPS. SUB CULTURES. SOME SOCIOLOGISTS BELIEVE THAT ETHNICITY IS A SIGNIFICANT SHAPING
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material from Item 2B and elsewhere‚ assess sociological views of the impact of government policies and laws on family life (24 marks) Social policies are laws made by the state to bring a change to society. As stated in item 2B different political policies have different ideologies and agendas that they will try and reinforce through the family. One example of a social policy is The Family Act Law in 1996 which is a part of John Majors ‘Back to Basics Campaign’ and this introduced a one year waiting
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An ethnic group is a social category who shares a common culture‚ such as common language‚ a common religion‚ or common norms‚ customs‚ practices and history. Britain is described as a multicultural (existence of two or more distinctive ethnic groups within one society) country due to the integration of a mass of ethnic minority groups. Johal’s (1998) findings show that second and third generation British-Asians have a dual identity. He found that Asian youth was adopting a “white mask” in order
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Examine the ways in which childhood can be said to be socially constructed. (24 MARKS) Some sociologists say that childhood is a social construction one of the reasons for this is that childhood seems to differ worldwide between different cultures there has been much research such as investigations into this‚ including separateness between children and adults‚ cultural differences and historical differences. Jane Pilcher speaks about separateness between adults and children. She notes that the
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