include poverty, poor school performance, low future expectations and social exclusion¹. ²The World Health Organization defines adolescent pregnancy as any pregnant girl less than 20 years old¹. This article aims to analyze if socio-economic status, family type and mother’s age at first pregnancy are risk factors for adolescent pregnancy. This also discusses the designing of a risk score of first-time adolescent pregnancy. The data was collected from 66 adolescent and 140 adult primiparous women who
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Assess the view that the Nuclear family is no longer the norm. The definition of a nuclear family is a family unit that consists of a mother, father and their children, who all live together. It can be argued that the nuclear family is no longer the norm but some sociologists, like Murdock and Talcott Parsons, would argue that the nuclear family is the norm. The three different types of sociologists; functionalists, feminists and new right all have different views on the family and its importance.
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is the belief that society is based on value consensus (shared norms and values) this enables co-operation and it believes society is made up of sub systems – family, education system, economy (all depend on one another). Functionalists see family as very important – a building block in society. Murdock (1949) four functions of the family are that stable statisfaction of sex drive (no social disruption of sexual free for all) as well as reproduction of next generation, socialisation of the young
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understanding of families and households. (29 marks) Functionalists believe that society is based on a value consensus into which society socialises its members. This enables them to cooperate harmoniously to meet society’s needs and achieve shared goals. However, other sociologists argue that contemporary society is not harmonious but is ridden with conflicts. Functionalists regard society as a system made up of different sub-systems that depend on each other, such as the family, education, religion
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opinions upon the family, the family is a very sensitive issue to many of the general public, so it’s a subject matter in which needs to be dealt with carefully. Sociologists have different opinions on when and how families developed into the popular family structures that we have today, the dominant roles within those families etc. Here are just a few examples of this: Functionalists believe that the family is the heart of society, it is essential in the world because the family set you up for your
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views of the roles of the family (24 marks) Functionalists believe that society is based on value consensus; a set of shared norms and values. The value consensus helps to socialise member of society to create social order, by allowing the members to work with each other and meet the needs of society. The functionalist definition of a family is a group consisting of two parents and their children living together as one unit; the roles of the family are simply what the family actually provide for both
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functions of the family Assess the contribution of functionalism to our understanding of families and households. (24) Functionalists take a consensus view of the role of family. They see it as a universal institution that performs essential functions for society as a whole and all members of the family. According to Murdock, it provides important sub-system that provides stable satisfaction for the sex drive and therefore avoids social disruption. As well as this, Murdock says the family reproduces
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whole, so the family meet some of society’s needs, such as the need to socialise children. Murdock argued that these functions are; economic needs such as food and shelter, reproduction (without which society could not continue), primary socialisation of the young into society’s shared norms and values and sex. He believes that those needs can only be achieved within a nuclear family. However, some sociologists would argue that these needs can be met in other ways than within the family. For example
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That the Growth of Family Diversity Has Led to the Decline of the Traditional Nuclear Family Using the material from item 2B and elsewhere, assess the view that the growth of family diversity has led to the decline of the traditional nuclear family In the past, traditionally families have mostly been the ‘traditional nuclear family’ made up of a married man and woman and at least one child. However there has recently been a decline in the amount of traditional nuclear families and an increase
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Assess the view that ‘the extended family remains as important now as it was in the past’ (24 marks) There are different opinions regarding the importance of the extended family in modern Britain. Some sociologists such as Parsons and Wilmott and Young believe that extended families have almost disappeared completely due to them losing their functions. However some sociologists such as Charles and Wilmott say the extended family remains as important now as it was in the past, but maybe the definition
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