Family

Families in Different Countries

We can come to understand a lot about family life and wider society through the study of children and their roles.

In this Open Learn article, Heather Montgomery considers how British practices compare to other cultures, as well as considering differences over time.

Discover More A 'normal' childhood depends on where you live and when you're born.

Students could use this information as a starting point for their own research into children in other cultures. Useful resources for their own research include the World Bank

Discover More A better start for children in Tonga

and Unicef

Discover More Childhood Defined



More Resources from Discovering Sociology


Functionalism and Rites of Passage

A useful overview of the Functionalist view of youth culture can be found below:

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Neo Tribes

Some Sociologists suggest that subcultures may no longer exist in the form that they once did. Fo...

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Classic Youth Subcultures

Students should be able to draw on examples from a wide range of subcultures, both classic and...

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Marxism, Neo-Marxism and Youth

The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) based at Birmingham University produced a ...

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Youth Subcultures and Consumerism

The class could investigate and consider the extent to which they consider the ‘haul girl&r...

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Kidulthood

Kirsty Grocott’s article in the Daily Telegraph:

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Generation Boomerang

Students could be asked to write a timeline of their lives as they anticipate them to be after...

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Social Class and Jamaican Patois

The following Daily Mail article laments the adoption of Jamaican patois styles of language in...

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Youth - Ethnicity and David Starkey

David Starkey featured in a Newsnight discussion about the 2011 UK riots. This Guardian articl...

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What is Youth

By way of starting off an investigation into youth subcultures, teachers could pose the proble...

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Youth Subcultures Introduction

We begin here by looking at ‘what is youth?’, and then the idea of

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