Sociology of Family and Households Overview
Overview
Revision
What are families and households?
Study questions for learning and understanding
Competing perspectives of the family
The family according to functionalists
The family according to Marxists
The family according to feminists
The family according to the New Right
Study questions for learning and understanding – 2
Power and the family
Stephen Lukes: Power and the family
Studies in gender power – who does the housework part 1
Who does the housework part 2
Changing family structures across time
Symmetrical family or privatised nuclear family
Changing functions of the family
Family diversity Power and the family
Study questions for learning and understanding – 4
Study questions for learning and understanding – 5
Demographic influences on the family
Reasons for demographic change
Fertility and average family size
Study questions for learning and understanding – 3
Marriage and divorce
Effects of divorce on children
A film highlighting the effects of divorce on children
Remarriage – blending families
Study questions for learning and understanding 6
Childhood
Roles, relationships and diversity
Opening-up the cereal packet family
Remarriage – blending families
Marriage in decline = cohabitation
Dark side of family life
Politics, social policy and the family
Social policy and the family (quick view)
Social policy and the New Right
Criticisms of New Right thinking
Postmodernism and the family
sociologytwynham.com 
It’s been so useful to me but how can I cite it as my reference? The author’s name and so forth?
Thank you
Hi -I suppose it’s what you need the reference for. If it’s for the content in general you can just use the web address of the page you’re referring to. If it’s something specific on a certain page then you can either quote the name eg Parsons then the page address or if you want a particular source then message me and I’ll get it for you.
Either way thanks for the complement 🙂
Hi, this webpage has been really helpful, but can you put an authors name somewhere so we can use that in references ?
C.Thompson (sociologytwynham)
Meant to say, glad you found it so helpful 🙂
Thank you SOOO much this has been a lifesaver. I cannot tell you how thrilled I am to have found this awesome website. God bless you :’)
Many thanks for your lovely comment 🙂
Am being taught about youth in sociology AS at my school but am absolutely hating it! Have decided to teach myself all about the family and this website has been a life saver at giving me all the topics I need to cover thankyou so much! One question though, do you know if this is everything you need to know for the OCR exam?
Thank you for such positive comments. Yes it covers the OCR specification. However I would recommend you work through OCR past papers http://www.ocr.org.uk/qualifications/as-a-level-gce-sociology-h181-h581/. If you ever have any points you need clarifying on please ask. Thanks again 🙂
Your website indeed is very helpful ! May God bless u ! I am doing GCSE A level will this site cover its specifications ? Moreover , i have come through a question in the pastpapers for which i cant find the answer can u pls clear this one out for me . Thanking u in advance
Qns-Evaluate the claim that in modern industrial societies the state has taken over most of the functions of the family.(16 marks )
Its markscheme answer :
Band1 0–4
In this mark band candidates may wish to support or reject the proposition uncritically. Others may attempt some description of the functions of the family with no reference to the question.
Band2 5–8
In this band the candidate may offer a supported defence of the proposition that the state has taken over the functions of the family and this can be supported either by theory or empirical data. Others can argue that the family continues to be responsible for its own affairs. Candidates who note that there may be a debate but who do not develop this, mark at the top of the band.
Band3 9–12
Answers show a more thorough understanding of the question and are supported with a good range of material. There will be a thorough exploration of both the arguments that the state has taken over the functions of the family and the evidence that the family continues to oversee its own affairs. Some may note how change has developed and support their answer with the work of such key thinkers as Fletcher, Delphy and Leonard or Allan and Crow. Evaluation in this mark band may be implicit.
Band4 13–16
Knowledge will be applied with a high degree of accuracy showing a careful analysis of the work referred to and an evaluation, which at its best, will be detailed leading to a balanced conclusion.
Hi – many thanks for the compliment. This site’s content will help you at both GCSE and A level, it’s just the content goes a lot deeper than necessary for GCSE.
To help you answer your exam question please go to https://sociologytwynham.com/2013/07/11/changing-functions-of-the-family/ and then click on the image in the centre of the page which answers your question. The yellow text examines the functions carried out by the family in the past while the green boxes relate to our contemporary period (modern industrial society).
Your question is simply saying the modern state undertakes all the functions once carried out by the family.
Hope that helps
Thank u so much for your prompt and indeed helpful reply !
plzzzzzzzzz can u tll me the different beteween household and family
Hi – a family is a group of people who are related by blood, marriage or adoption whereas a household is more than one person living at the same address, like a group of university students living together – they generally have no kinship ties (related by blood, marriage or adoption. Hope that helps 🙂
Hello nitisha , I am appearing for A level sociology this year . I dont know anyone who is doing the same as I am a private candidate . So I just wanted to know how far have u completed the syllabus and whats your status on sociology right now ?
Hope u dont mind me asking .
Hi again – just in case you don’t scroll down below my reply, a student is asking you a direct question below my reply to you 🙂
Thank you for your extra help 🙂
Bdw I cant seem to find notes on the debate about the unvierstality of the nuclear family , have you got any ? As your collection seems to be quite complete . If u havent then you certainly should add them 🙂
Pleasure to help. Glad you like the revision books. You raise a useful point, as with anything sometimes it is difficult to decide what to include and what to leave out but I’ll certainly keep your point in mind 🙂
Do you have revision books? And is everything here that I will need for my As sociology families and house holds exam? Im taking the AQA paper
Hi – yes I have a number of revision publications on this link https://sociologytwynham.com/publications-sociology-revision-books/
If you just want one for the AS family then this book will suffice as it has questions and answers you can test yourself on – hope that helps 🙂 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Family-Resit-Revision-Sociology-Twynham-Com/dp/1507816820/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1423514973&sr=1-2&keywords=sociology+twynham+revision
Ok thanks, i will purchase it today. I find your notes very useful and simple to understand!
Thanks for the compliment. Any questions just ask 🙂
Do you do tutoring of any kind?
Where are you based?
West Yorkshire, dewsbury
Hi – sorry I’m miles away in the south of England.
A lot of your embedded resources e.g. Prezi and articles are produced in North America which has its own particular history of family life
please i will like know if economy, agrarian,structure and extend family falls under pre-industrialisation. i am not really sure about can you clarify me.
many thanks .
Sorry I didn’t see this sooner. The extended family was fundamental to the functioning of a family’s economy in pre-industrialisation.