Family forms and ties
Instructions
Basic information about the module
This module charts changes in family forms and personal ties from the post-war period to the present day. The decline of traditional nuclear families characterised by conventional male breadwinner/female housewife gender roles is examined, and the debated demise of this family form is considered in the context of wider social pressures and shifts in the bases of individual identities. Concepts such as individualisation, urbanisation and secularisation are considered to make sense of these changes. We shall examine different aspects of family life such as gender, power and inequalities in the division of labour, violence; motherhood and fatherhood; relationships breakdown and step-families; same-sex relationships and families; and friendship. A further important strand of the module concerns what may be referred to as the Western bias in the sociology of the family, and this will be explored and challenged through students’ own desk-based research into family forms and personal ties in a wide range of cultural contexts globally.

Key Words. To consider when writing essay . Sociology; family; relationships; marriage; divorce; step-families; motherhood; fatherhood; sexualities; friendship.

Module Learning Outcomes- This need to be met in the essay
Draw on relevant sociological theories and concepts to critically review the nature of changing family forms and/or personal ties.

2500 word essay answering the following question
‘Till death us do part’ no longer? Evaluate the argument that marriage is no longer as significant or as enduring in contemporary British society than in previous eras.?
Please draw on relevant sociological theories and concepts to critically review the nature of changing family forms and/or personal ties.
Please can you use this readings
Lindsay, J. and Dempsey, D. (2009) Families, Relationships and Intimate Life, Oxford: Oxford University Press (Chapter 6: ‘Love, Commitment and Marriage’
Romantic Relationships, Individualism and the Possibility of Togetherness: Seeing Durkheim in Theories of Contemporary Intimacy’, Sociology
Ribbens McCarthy, Jane, Edwards, Rosalind and Gillies, Val (2003) Making Families: Moral Tales of Parenting and Step-parenting, London: Routledge (Chapter 2: ‘Being ‘a family’’ and/or **Chapter 5: ‘’It’s just not fair!’: the rights and obligations of ‘doing family’’).
Smart, C. (2006) ‘Children’s narratives of post-divorce family life: from individual experience to an ethical disposition’, The Sociological Review, 54, (1), 155-170.
Hackstaff, Karla (2004) ‘Wives’ marital work in a culture of divorce’ in Scott Coltrane (ed.) Families and Society: Classic and Contemporary Readings Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Thomson. First published 1998.
Please also use journals
AND OTHER READINGS OF YOUR CHOICE
Please look at week four slides
Week six and week ten, eleven and , twelve
Hope they help.

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