Cards (10)

  • Judith Stacey - Postmodern families
    Economic, technological, and social changes have enabled women to free themselves from the traditional nuclear family.
    one of these new structures was the divorce-extended family, whose members were connected by divorce rather than marriage. The key members are usually female
  • Giddens - Individualisation Thesis
    In our postmodern society we have more freedom to choose how to live our lives.
    The family has been transformed by choice and equality, this is due to - Contraception and Women in work
  • Giddens - Pure Relationship
    Couples stay together for their own reasons, rather than acting out laws and roles imposed on them, they exist solely to meet each partners needs.
    As a result the relationship will only survive as long as both partners feel it is in their interest to continue with it
  • Giddens - Same sex relationships
    Leading the way towards more equal relationships
  • Ulrich Beck - Risk Society
    Tradition has less influence and people have more choice
  • Ulrich Beck - Negotiated Family
    Do not conform to traditional family norms. Vary according to wishes and expectations of their members who decide what is best for them. However it is more unstable = Individualism
  • Ulrich Beck - Zombie Family
    It appears to be alive, but in reality it is dead. People want family to be a haven of security in an insecure world, but today's family can't provide this because of its own instability
  • The Connectedness Thesis
    We are not 'disembedded individual' we make decisions based within a social context and our existing relationships and personal history
  • Chester
    Argues that there has not been a significant increase in family diversity. Most people will be a member of a nuclear family for a large part of their life. The nuclear family is still the family type most people aspire to be
  • The Rapports - 5 Types of Family Diversity
    Society has moved away from the nuclear family as the dominant type. The main cause of this is the life-cycle and social change, not a decline in morality.
    • Organisational
    • Cultural
    • Social Class
    • Life stage
    • Generational