Personal life perspective

Question 1

What does the personal life perspective believe about family?

Answer 1

Family today has different meanings
Its members give their meanings to theyre relationships and situations, rather than families supposed functions

Question 2

What does the term architects of society mean?

Answer 2

Individuals actively construct and shape social structures.

Question 3

What are the 5 types of family argued by persons life perspective?

Answer 3

Friends
Fictive kin
Chosen families
Dead relatives
Pets

Question 4

What did ancestry find about pets?

Answer 4

90% of pet owners think of their animal as part of the family
1/3 of those claim to prefer their pets to real life members of their family

Question 5

What do Allan and Crow argue?

Answer 5

In the 1960s there was an expected direction of ones life course
Graduate
Move out
Get married
Have children
Children move out
Get used to empty nest
More time for leisure activities

Question 6

What does Levin argue?

Answer 6

Life course argued by Allan and Crow was compulsory as it was reinforced by strong social norms
Socially approved format of cereal packet family

Question 7

What are positives of the plp?

Answer 7

Acknowledges that people play an active role in forming relationships
Acknowledges families are complex and not necessarily just biological

Question 8

What are weaknesses of the plp perspective?

Answer 8

Takes too broad of a view
Choosing representative samples difficult as there is so much diversity to account for, so can’t make generalisations
Friendships in decline (2022 report record less people having friends from 1990s and relying on them less for emotional support)