This worksheet covers the arguments for and against the question of whether the nuclear family is universal. It includes Murdock, New Right, The Nayar, same sex families, lone parent families and communes and religious beliefs.

This worksheet covers family diversity which is occurring in British families and households. It is split into two sections covering modernism on family diversity (Functionalism, New Right, Chester’s Neo Conventional Family and The Rapoports) and postmodernism on family diversity (The Individualisation Thesis, The Connectedness Thesis and Life Cycle Diversity).

This worksheet covers the darker side of the family which refers to domestic and child abuse. It includes statistics on both areas and explanations from Radical and Marxist Feminists as well the materialist perspective.

This worksheet covers the domestic division of flavour within families and households which involves gender roles and power within the family. It includes functionalist approaches, the march of progress view with symmetrical families, feminist perspectives, cultural and material explanations and same sex couples gender scripts. It also covers a section on resources and decision making within families too.

This worksheet covers the future of childhood and questions regarding whether childhood is disappearing, whether it has improved and whether we have a more child centred approach today. It covers the march of progress view, toxic childhood, the conflict approach, the disappearance of childhood approach and childhood in postmodernity.

This worksheet covers the social construction of childhood including the modern western notions of childhood, social differences in children in the same society, cross cultural differences and historical differences in childhood.

This worksheet covers the definition for demography, migration, immigration and globalisation. It also outlines the impact of migration and globalisation in the UK as part of the families and households topic in A Level Sociology. This worksheet can also be used for the impact ethnicity had on families and households.

This worksheet covers the reasons why there has been a decrease in birth rate and decrease in family size in the UK as part of the families and households topic in A Level Sociology

This worksheet covers the reasons why death rates are declining in the UK as part of the families and households topic in A Level Sociology

This worksheet covers the reasons why divorce is increasing in the UK as part of the families and households topic in A Level Sociology

This worksheet covers the reasons why marriage is declining in the UK and why cohabitation is increasing as part of the families and households topic in A Level Sociology

This worksheet covers the arguments in favour and against the view that the family has lost its function including functionalist perspectives like Parsons, Fletcher and Murdock as well as Ross, Litwak, Marxist and feminist perspectives.

This worksheet covers the advantages and disadvantage of an ageing population within the families and households topic in the UK

This worksheet covers Alternative families on families and households including same sex families, one person households, Living Apart Together (LATs), reconstituted families and lone parent families.

This worksheet covers Feminist perspectives on on families and households including Liberal, Socialist, Radical and Difference Feminist approaches.

This worksheet covers Marxist perspectives on on families and households including Engel’s, Althusser and Zaretsky and the unit of consumption theory.

This worksheet covers family policy passed by various past and previous governments and the impact this had on families and households in the UK

This worksheet includes key definition for families vs households, the types of marriages and types of families that students should be aware of on the A Level Sociology course

This worksheet covers the Functionalist perspectives on families and households including Parsons and Murdock.

This worksheet covers the Personal Life Perspective (PLP) on families and households including Nordquvist and Smart.