Personal life perspective

• Postmoderism and interactionalist influence personal life perspective show meanings and not functions
• Structuralist theories are not influenced by PLP
• Structuralist is top down
• Bottom up increases validity ( interactionalist and post modernism)
• methods such as interviews and questionnaires are used for PLP
• PLP cannot be operationalised
• fictive kin- mothers friends= aunty for example
• PLP increases diversity and inclusive of all different families
• PLP focuses on meanings and other relationships that are just as important as families eg relationships with friends
• Pets are considered family consensus shows
• Nordquist discuses donor children
• PLP shows that relatedness instead always positive eg abuse, violence
• Postmodernism families consisit of chosen families and same sex relationships and donor children
• methods of questionares and interviews used for PLP
• the plp undermines the importance of blood and genes and biology
• PLP shows that relateness isnt always positive
• pop shows the importance of social relationships rather than genetic
• What is pure relationships?

  relationships now bound by traditional norms
• Connectedness thesis was created by carol smart
• PLP= bottoms up
• Methods= Interviews and questionnaires
• Three different types of families?

  • fictive kin
  • relationships with friends
  • chosen family
• Norquist- donor children
• PLP may be too broad and loses the concept of family and blood/marriages