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To be able to apply sociologists¶ views
to a variety of exam questions
 Top 10 Sociologists
‡ For each sociologist, identify as many
questions as you can which you could use
their view to answer
‡ We will compare your views and see how
many you get!
  
 



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‡ Idea of µ 
   

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‡ Men and women have different roles; they
are 
  into these via
family/education/society, and these roles
work for the good of society
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‡ Found from interviews with women in
refuges that men would be violent to
women when they challenged their


‡ Argue that
  legitimates violence
against women and reinforces    
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‡ Argued that in very early society, there was 

 
 



 

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‡ It was only with the development of forces of
production/private property that marriage etc
became necessary in order for money to remain
within families.
‡ This meant that the rich stayed rich
‡ It also turned women into µinstruments of the
production of children¶
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‡ Men and women should take on
 
  
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‡ Growth of lone-parent families result of
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‡ Critical of welfare state/benefits for poor


  
  

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‡ Believe we have moved away from the
traditional nuclear family because of
    

‡ Family diversity is 
 for society
‡ It is a response to people¶s needs and
wishes; not a µ 
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  view
‡ Argues we are 

  

 
; but have greater choice
‡ However this brings greater &
‡ Although the traditional patriarchal family was
unequal, it did provide stability
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have undermined the traditional
patriarchal family
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" are now more common:
they are

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‡ Strongly influenced by |
 
‡ Uses concept of    to argue that
policy is a form of state power over families
‡ This power is not limited to the government but
diffused throughout society
‡ Social workers, health visitors, doctors etc 
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‡ Surveillance is targeted at !

"families
usually the poorest, seen as cause of crime/anti-
social behaviour
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‡ See family life as gradually improving for all
members; becoming

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‡ Move away from segregated conjugal roles,
towards 

   families where both the
man and woman work outside AND inside the
home
‡ Result of change in women¶s position,
geographical mobility and higher standards of
living
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‡   idea of symmetrical family and
the µmarch of progress¶ view of
families/women¶s position
‡ Researched housework; found that



   

  
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‡ Claims the idea of childhood did not exist in the
middle ages
‡ Childhood is µ
 
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‡ Modern view of childhood result of widespread
education, books on childcare, different clothes
for children
‡ Argued there was a µcult of childhood¶ in modern
society; that we live in a highly / 
society.