This document is an evaluation form for a sociology student to rate their confidence level on various topics relating to families and households. There are over 20 topics listed that cover areas like gender roles, power relationships in couples, changes in childhood, population trends in the UK, and sociological perspectives on families and policies. For each topic, the student is asked to indicate if they feel very confident, fairly confident, not confident, or need to revise the topic.

1. AS Sociology – Families & Households
Evaluation
Rate how confident you are on the following topics:
Topic Very Fairly Not Need to
Confident confident confident at revise
all
Gender roles in the domestic division of labour
Power relationships between couples including decision making
and domestic violence
Changes in the roles and relationships between couples
Sociological views on relationships between couples
The social construction of childhood
Reasons for the changes in childhood
Different views of the position of children today
Different views of the future of childhood
Functionalist, Marxist, Feminist and New Right perspective son the
family
Analyse the similarities and differences between the perspectives
Population trends in the UK since 1900
Evaluate reasons for the population changes
Evaluate the consequences of the population changes
Changes in partnerships including marriage, divorce, cohabitation
and civil partnerships
Changes in childbearing and child rearing including births outside
marriage, lone-parent and step-families
Evaluate and analyse reasons for changes in families and
households
Evaluate and analyse sociological views of family diversity
The difference between modernist and postmodernist approaches
to family diversity
Ways in which social policies may affect families
Different sociological perspectives on families and social policies