Personal life perspective (families) Flashcards
(6 cards)
1
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Stacey
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- divorced extended families; through having strong bonds with ex-partner’s family and getting support from them
- focus on meanings of individuals not defined as family- fictive kin (auntie as a close friend)
2
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Clarke
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- meanings to marriage; differences in how people create marriage
- asked to make sense of meanings of marriage by acting it out- not something we have rather than something we do
3
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Nordqvist and Smart
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- donor conceived children- issue of blood and genes raised range of feelings - emphasising importance of social relationships over genetic ones (role of mum based on time and effort rather than blood)
- difficult feeling flare up when being called they ‘look like them’ - leading to curiosity donor’s identity and whether donors should be counted as ‘grandparents’
4
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Leach (critical PLP)
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- a runaway world negative view of the family; nuclear family isolated from kin and the wider community
the nuclear family is like an overloaded electric circuit; demands on it are too much and the fuses blow- result in conflict (fighting) - privacy is the source of fear and violence; tensions of the family find themselves expressed in wider society- families huddle together to create barriers between them and wider society
5
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Laing
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- agreed with Leach that families draw barriers between them and outside worlds, preventing autonomy and freedom
- studied interaction within families where one member had been defined as SZ and can only be understood within context of family
- families operate on basis of alliances and tactics- can act as gangsters offering each other mutual support against each other’s violence, creating to psychological distress and leading to SZ
6
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Criticisms of personal life
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- argued that they take a too broad of a view, by offering more range of different kinds of relationships, ignore what is special based on blood or marriage
- ignore social factors eg class, gender or ethnicity
