Personal Life Perspective Interactionalist

Question 1

Do interaction lists take a bottom up approach or top down

Answer 1

Take a bottom off approach by studying individual interactions between people and seeing how that shapes the bigger picture

Question 2

Fictive kin

Answer 2

Children playing active part in deciding who is proper family they might have close individual relationships with people they refer to as aunt or uncle but have no biological or legal connection to them they are simply close friends of parents

Question 3

Friends

Answer 3

Gay individuals close friends are more important than actual family gays create families based on idea of friendship offers same sense of security and stability as heterosexual families

Question 4

Pets

Answer 4

Few pets as family members pets participate in things like holidays birthdays and even have funerals

Question 5

Donnor families

Answer 5

Show us how social meanings attributed to family members were more important than genetic ones

Question 6

Strengths interactionalists evaluation

Answer 6

Free will so we construct around family life rather than social structures influencing these meanings

Question 8

Weaknesses evaluation interactional

Answer 8

Biological family is unique ignores importance of relationships based on marriage and blood