Individual choice in personal relationships - made family less important in UK.

Question 1

Pure relationships - Giddens (1992)

Answer 1

E - Giddens argues intimate relationships are now based on individual choice and equality - pure relationship as typical of today’s society - exists mainly to satisfy each others needs.
E - This means the relationship is likely to survive only so long as both partners think it is, that an interest to do so couples stay together because of love, happiness, or sexual attraction, rather than because of tradition - family less important, not bothered
E - Jamieson (1998) argues they exaggerate how individualized modern relationships are. Even in late modernity, relationships remain deeply embedded in wider social networks, and emotional ties - people not as free.