AQA A Level Sociology Families and the Household Practice Test
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Prepare with the AQA A Level Sociology Families and the Household Practice Test practice quiz. This question bank includes 10 questions covering family, term, claim, level, and sociology. Use it to review important concepts, identify knowledge gaps, and build confidence for the related exam, course, or assessment.
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1
What was a Conservative policy aim in the 1980s-1990s?
Explanation:
The key idea here is how Conservative policy in the 1980s–1990s framed the family and welfare. The approach emphasized the nuclear family as the main source of support and aimed to reduce welfare dependence by encouraging self-help and personal responsibility. Policies during this period pushed people to work, limited welfare provision, and promoted individual and family responsibility over state provision. That makes the statement about strengthening nuclear families through self-help and reduced reliance on welfare the best fit, because it directly reflects the era’s emphasis on the family as the core unit of support and on cutting welfare reliance. The other options describe approaches—expanding welfare, relying on extended families, or universal basic income—that aren’t aligned with the Conservative stance of that time.
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2
What characterizes integrated conjugal roles?
Explanation:
Integrated conjugal roles involve both partners sharing domestic tasks and taking part in family life, rather than separating chores strictly by gender. This overlap means there are few clear divisions between male and female roles at home. The idea is about joint participation and blurred boundaries, not a rigid split or a complete absence of difference. So the statement that there are few divisions between gendered roles best captures this pattern.
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3
What does Silva (1996) argue about media-fuelled concerns over lone mothers?
Explanation:
Media representations of lone mothers can function as a tool to reinforce patriarchal ideas about gender roles. Silva argues that the frequent media focus on lone mothers isn’t simply about real welfare concerns; it serves to moralize and sensationalize them in a way that supports a traditional, male-breadwinner family ideal. This framing helps justify policies that push women back into domestic roles and curtail advances toward gender equality by portraying single motherhood as a problem rooted in individual morality rather than broader structural factors like poverty or housing. In this way, the discourse acts to uphold patriarchal norms rather than genuinely addressing welfare.
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4
Which factor contributes to delayed or reduced childbearing?
Explanation:
Rising costs of raising a family shape when people decide to have children. When the financial burden—covering housing, education, healthcare, day-to-day needs—becomes heavier, many individuals or couples choose to delay starting a family or decide not to have children at all. This economic constraint pushes fertility timing later or reduced overall childbearing. Policies or factors that would raise birth rates, lower childcare costs, or simply provide more parental leave don’t push behavior in the same delaying direction. Higher birth rates from policy changes would encourage more childbearing, cheaper childcare would lessen the cost barrier and likely promote earlier or more births, and additional parental leave supports families but isn’t the primary driver of delaying in the way rising costs are.
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5
Which term refers to a family formed when a previous family breaks up and is reassembled by marriage or cohabitation?
Explanation:
Reconstituted families form when a previous family breaks up and is reassembled through marriage or cohabitation. This creates a new family unit that includes stepparents and often step-siblings, coming together after divorce or separation. It’s different from a lone-parent family, which centers on one parent raising children without a new partner; from a single person household, which is someone living alone; and from a family formed by same-sex parents, which isn’t defined by a remarriage or reassembly after a breakup. The defining idea is the restructuring of the family through a new partnering arrangement after a previous family has ended.
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AQA A Level Sociology Families and the Household Practice Test
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