NCCQ UK THEORY PAST PAPER 2026 STUDY
GUIDE REVISION SHEET CORE CONCEPT
BREAKDOWN
◉ Parsons family roles.
Answer: Instrumental and expressive roles
◉ Oakley.
Answer: Canalisation and manipulation when socialising children
Unequal distribution of labour between men and owmen
◉ Rappoport and Rappoport.
Answer: Family diversity- sexual, cultural, organisational, cohort,
generational
Postmodernists who embrace family diversity
Increase in same-sex families
◉ Zaretsky.
,Answer: Marxist- cushioning theory
Illusion that the family and capitalism are separate
Family is a unit of consumption
◉ Baumann.
Answer: postmodernist, liquid love- love is fleeting and partners
come and go
◉ Silver and schor.
Answer: Modern functionalists, death of the housewife since we
have machines such as dishwashers to do the work for them
◉ Murdock functions of the family.
Answer: Sexual, reproductive, education, economic
◉ Devault.
Answer: Women do hidden work
◉ Coulter.
Answer: New right, 'victim of a crime? Blame a single mother'
◉ Delphy and Leonard.
, Answer: Women are exploited in traditional gender roles in the
family
◉ Triple shift.
Answer: Women are mothers, wives and workers
role conflict, competing demands
◉ Morgan.
Answer: New right, nuclear family is under threat because of divorce
and single parents
marriage is the cornerstone of society
◉ Bernstein.
Answer: elaborated and restricted codes
◉ Modood.
Answer: Teachers held the bar lower for black students and
expected less- even black teachers
◉ Bowels and Gintis.
Answer: Hidden curriculum, school socialises children into
capitalism
GUIDE REVISION SHEET CORE CONCEPT
BREAKDOWN
◉ Parsons family roles.
Answer: Instrumental and expressive roles
◉ Oakley.
Answer: Canalisation and manipulation when socialising children
Unequal distribution of labour between men and owmen
◉ Rappoport and Rappoport.
Answer: Family diversity- sexual, cultural, organisational, cohort,
generational
Postmodernists who embrace family diversity
Increase in same-sex families
◉ Zaretsky.
,Answer: Marxist- cushioning theory
Illusion that the family and capitalism are separate
Family is a unit of consumption
◉ Baumann.
Answer: postmodernist, liquid love- love is fleeting and partners
come and go
◉ Silver and schor.
Answer: Modern functionalists, death of the housewife since we
have machines such as dishwashers to do the work for them
◉ Murdock functions of the family.
Answer: Sexual, reproductive, education, economic
◉ Devault.
Answer: Women do hidden work
◉ Coulter.
Answer: New right, 'victim of a crime? Blame a single mother'
◉ Delphy and Leonard.
, Answer: Women are exploited in traditional gender roles in the
family
◉ Triple shift.
Answer: Women are mothers, wives and workers
role conflict, competing demands
◉ Morgan.
Answer: New right, nuclear family is under threat because of divorce
and single parents
marriage is the cornerstone of society
◉ Bernstein.
Answer: elaborated and restricted codes
◉ Modood.
Answer: Teachers held the bar lower for black students and
expected less- even black teachers
◉ Bowels and Gintis.
Answer: Hidden curriculum, school socialises children into
capitalism
