Criticisms of the Individualisation Thesis

• Budgeon 2011: individualisation thesis exaggerates how much choice people have in families. This reflects the neoliberal ideology held where people have complete freedom of choice.
• individualisation thesis wrongly sees people as 'free-floating' and ignores that choices are made in a social context
• individualisation thesis ignore structural factors such as class which can shape individual behaviour in a relationship
• May: Giddens and Beck's theories are based on the 'idealised version of a white, middle class man' and the individualisation thesis ignores that most people aren't as privileged and thus don't have the freedom to make said choices.