OCR A-Level Sociology Families and relationships overview quiz quiz

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Five

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The warm bath theory (stabilisation of adult personalities)

The correspondence principle linking school and the workplace

The symmetrical family in which roles are shared more equally

The dual burden carried by women in paid work and the home

It arose mainly in order to socialise and educate young children

It arose to secure the inheritance of private property

It arose directly out of the movement for women's liberation

It arose chiefly to stabilise the personalities of adult members

A fluid, postmodern family of constantly shifting forms

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

A dual-earner nuclear family that remains the norm

An extended family spanning three or more generations

It is now genuinely and fully equal between partners

It exists only within same-sex lesbian couple households

It applies only to working-class families, not the middle class

It is a myth, as women still do most housework

Paid work, housework and emotion work

Paid work, housework and managing leisure time

Childcare, cooking the meals and cleaning the home

Making decisions, controlling money and domestic violence

Decisions are made entirely equally between the two partners

Men make the major decisions while women make minor ones

Women control all of the household money and spending entirely

Children make most of the important decisions within the family

Childhood is biologically fixed and natural across all of history

Childhood is steadily disappearing in the contemporary world

Childhood as a distinct stage is a modern invention

Childhood is experienced in exactly the same way in all cultures

It is steadily improving as children gain more rights and care

It is becoming longer and more sharply separated from adulthood

It is wholly unaffected by the influence of the electronic media

It is disappearing as media erode the adult-child boundary

A multi-generational family with few siblings

A large family with a great many children in one generation

A lone-parent family headed by one mother or one father

A reconstituted family formed when two families blend together