Postmodernism Flashcards
(5 cards)
Poststructuarlists :
Donzelott and Foucault suvallence and how family is monitered
We should look at family in how it is controlled and monitored through:
-Health visitors
-Education professionals
Postmodernism says : pic n mix, micro,bottom up, social action approach.
pic n mix;They reject the structural views as it ignores the fact we still have some freewill to choose the families they create.
Micro,bottom up,social action approach: you are not being structurally determined, unique experience and individual social actions cause change to society.
The personal life perspective:
The postmerdernist family: pets,freinds,fictive ken can all be perscieved as blood ties yet not biologically.
Smart says
family is now being taken over by personalized relationships.
The family is shaped by social connections rather than biological.
AO3 on personal life approach
overlooks structural factors ;class, ethnicity and gender