🔥☑️✅☑️✅🔹Postmodernist Arguments

Question 1

What do post modernists describe the postmodern era as?

Answer 1

A time of change, fluidity and uncertainty

Question 2

What did Judith Stacey see family diversity as?

Answer 2

As a reflection of postmodern society as there is no one family form to which everyone aspires

Question 3

In Judith Stacey’s words describe the family structure in the postmodern era

Answer 3

‘Like postmodern culture, contemporary family arrangement are diverse, fluid and unresolved’

Question 4

What two factors influence our selection of family structure

Answer 4

Choose based on our emotional and social needs

Question 5

What two theories in particular do postmodernists find outdated?

Answer 5

Marxism and functionalism

Question 6

What does postmodernist Steve Taylor note about postmodernist society and the family?
What phrase describes this?

Answer 6

Postmodern socoety has been transformed into something resembling an endless shopping mall
‘Pick and mix’ society

Question 7

What did the Rapoports classify family diversity into?

Answer 7

Organisational diversity 
Cultural diversity 
Class diversity
Regional diversity
Life cycle diversity

Question 8

Which 2 Rapoports classifications should I talk about in the exam?

Answer 8

Organisational diversity

Regional diversity

Question 9

What does organisational diversity refer to?

Answer 9

A variety of family structures that can be found in society e.g duel income families, non employed families and same sex parents

Question 10

What does postmodernists Jacqueline and Burgoyne and David Clark (1992) claim?

Answer 10

Some individuals in a abnormal family type see themselves as ‘pioneers of an alternative lifestyle’

Question 11

State some findings from Jacqueline Burgoyne and Davis Clark’s study

Answer 11

• people choose to remain unmarried
• benefits from more than 2 parental figures
• sense of achievement from reconstituted family

Question 12

What % of Afro Caribbean families in 2000 were single parent?
What does this compare to as Gb on the whole?

Answer 12

50% compared to 22% in GB

Question 13

What did Berthoud find about Afro Caribbean families?

Answer 13

They have the lowest marriage rate, highest proportion of Lone mothers and highest divorce rate

Question 14

What are afro caribbean families?

Answer 14

Matrifocal

Question 15

What did Ballard find about Asian families?

Answer 15

• patriarchal
• all family members live together
• men and woman have differentiated tasks (sex role differentiation)

Question 16

What changes did Ballard find to Asian families due to migration?

Answer 16

• increasing women were finding work outside the home
• extended families were impractical
• some GB Asians rejected traditional authority structure

Question 17

What is Izzat?

Answer 17

Asian Family honour

Question 18

What did Berthoud and Beishon find about Asian families in 1997

Answer 18

More likely to marry earlier than white counterparts and cohabitation and divorce are rare

Question 19

What did Kieran and Mueller find about class and family breakup?

Answer 19

The lower the class of a married couple the more likely they are to divorce, Hugh divorce rates are linked to poverty, low income and benefits

Question 20

What did Eversley and Bonnerjea claim about regional diversity?

Answer 20

There is a relationship between location and family type

Question 21

What are the 6 areas of England and Wales which have specific households (regional diversty)

Answer 21

• sun belt (affluent southern England) 2 parent upward mobile families
• the geriatric wards (coastal areas) elderly couples
• older industrial areas -traditional family structures
• inner city areas (single parent + ethnic minority)
• newly declining industrial areas (midlands) diverse
• rural areas -families with strong kinship

Question 22

What do postmodernists believe about the government?

Answer 22

They influence our life choices e.g maternity pay suggests a woman’s role is a housewife

Question 23

What did Pakulski and Waters find? (1996)

Answer 23

The contemporary family roles are a matter of choice, the roles interact with consumption and media image

Question 24

What do postmodernists believe about masculinity and femininity?

Answer 24

Feminists and Masculinities have undergone change and remain diverse, supports the feminist view

Question 25

What did Cheal for me in 1993?

Answer 25

Family has undergone major change because society is no longer predictable, people have choices in their lifetime and exercise those houses

Question 26

What did David Morgan 1996 find?

Answer 26

The routines of family life give us the sense of being a family member rather than relationships

Question 27

Who came up with plastic sexuality and what is it?

Answer 27

Giddens

-sex for pleasure and not reproduction

Question 28

What did Judith Stacey find about women in her Silicon Valley study?

Answer 28

Found women were drivers of family change because they had opportunities to create new and varied family types
This is because family is based on the women or mother

Question 29

What emerged in Judith Stacey’s Silicon Valley study?

Answer 29

New types of family e.g beanpole and blended develop and form around women
This has contributed to the movement towards gender equality and contribute towards many changes in family life