Family diversity- Post modernism

Question 1

Personal freedom

Answer 1

-individuals now have choice
-more diversity so no best type
-we can now plot our own lifestyle
-risk of instability though

Question 2

Stacey

Answer 2

-better freedom for women
-free from patriarchal oppression
-divorce and extended family maintained by women

Question 3

Cheal

Answer 3

-family more fragmented as choice of lifestyle and family arrangement
-active choice, being gay and cohabitation

Question 4

Life course analysis

Answer 4

-research by tamara hareven
-unstructured interviews about choice
-talk to family members
-shows family views point, not sociologists
-shows no benefit for women

Question 5

Beck

Answer 5

-risk society
-negotiated families have no traditional norms
-equal but not stable as individuals free to leave if needs not met

Question 6

Giddens

Answer 6

-Individualism thesis
-traditional social construct lost influence
-people stay together due to love not children
-self identify and discovery
-same sex has choice over tradition

Question 7

Criticism of Giddens

Answer 7

-idea that social construct has lost touch is exaggerated
-gender and class
-not all same sex have freedom

Question 8

Smart

Answer 8

-Connectedness thesis
-live within networks of existing relationships and interwoven personal history
-impossible for relationships to simply just end
-class and gender limit out choices
-it is possible for relationships to agree to go separate ways

Question 9

Smart and May

Answer 9

-Personal life
-exaggerated the choice people have
-not completely free
-idealised version of white m/c men, not everyone experiences it

Question 10

Zoombie family

Answer 10

-alive but in reality dead
-people want security but cant have it in todays family as its focused on own stability