Family - Topic 1 - Postmodernism, Personal life Perspective

Cards (6)

How many Postmodernists are there?
1
Name the postmodernist 
Beck Gernstein
What did Beck-Gernstein find out?
The traditional family structures are disintegrated and being replaced by a wide diversity of relationships - the death of the family
What are the 2 interactionists when studying Sociology of the Personal life?
Smart
Weeks
What did Smart find out?
People have been replaced with fictive kin and that relationships suit them - Family is not 'dead' as a concept but it means different things to different people
What did Weeks find out?
There is a wide range of family relationships - families that we choose creates our own meaning for family