family theories (new right, plp, postmodernism)

Question 1

charles murray

Answer 1

welfare a ‘perverse incentive’ and all this modern family stuff is leading to the breakdown of society

Question 2

ann oakley

Answer 2

the new right think that gender roles are biological, which is wrong. they are a social construction.

Question 3

carol smart

Answer 3

fictive kin (close friends of parents), friends may be like siblings, gay/lesbian ‘chosen families’, dead relatives who continue to shape actions, pets.

Question 4

anthony giddens

Answer 4

relationships not stable; chosen for sex and love, not for reproduction, not seen as permanent. everything is individualistic.

Question 5

ulrich beck

Answer 5

individualisation and equality have created the negotiated family, not fixed, varies according to member’s choices. means family has a higher risk of breaking down.

zombie family -> people want a haven from the insecurity of the world but the family itself is insecure.

Question 6

carol smart against giddens

Answer 6

‘web of connectedness’