AQA A-Level Sociology Families and Households overview quiz quiz

Reproduction of the next generation and the economic provision for family members

Primary socialisation of children and stabilisation of adult personalities

The sexual function and the educational function within wider society

The allocation of social roles and the maintenance of social solidarity

Now genuinely universal across every single social class in society

Only ever found among families within the working class

A myth, because women still do most of the housework

Caused directly by the rise in women taking up paid work

Paid work, housework and the childcare of the children

The three household tasks of cooking, cleaning and shopping

Working across the day shift, the evening shift and the night shift

Paid work, housework and emotion work

Childhood is defined by society and varies across cultures and history

Childhood does not really exist at all and is purely an illusion

Children actively build their own separate identities for themselves

Childhood is exactly the same everywhere across every culture and every era

Birth rates are falling steadily across the whole of society

Media erode the information barrier between children and adults

Parents are now more protective of their children than ever before

Schools deliberately keep children kept separate from adults

A steadily rising infant mortality rate right across the country

A sharp fall in life expectancy among the general population

The changing position of women and falling infant mortality

A marked increase in the average size of families over time

The ratio of men to women across the whole of the national population overall

The ratio of the number of births to the number of deaths each year

The ratio of married adults to unmarried adults within the population

The ratio of the working population to the dependent (non-working) population

A dual-earner nuclear family that most people live in or aspire to

A lone-parent family headed by a single mother or father

An extended family of several different generations all living together

A same-sex family raising children of their own together

The Marriage Act 1949

The 1969 Divorce Reform Act

The Children Act 1989

The Civil Partnership Act 2004

They should be increased substantially in order to help out all families in need

They have no real effect at all on the structure of the family

They act as perverse incentives that encourage lone parenthood and dependency

They work to reinforce patriarchy within the household