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POSTMODERNISM & FAMILY - Coggle Diagram
POSTMODERNISM & FAMILY
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ALLAN & CROWE: No longer a fixed pattern of growing up, leaving home, getting married & having children
AO3 CHESTER: Neo conventional family, at some point most of us do experience living as part of a nuclear family
BECK: Risk society, rapidly changing N&V
JUDITH STACEY: There's no 1 dominant family type in today's modern society. She highlighted the divorce-extended family- members are connected by divorce rather than marriage
she also argued that greater choice has freed women from patriarchal expression. Through case studies she found that women rather than men are the driving force behind changes in the family. She discovered that many women rejected the traditional housewife role & had chosen extremely varied life paths (returning to education, having a career, divorcing, remarrying)
FITZGERALD: Found that in today's society the relationship between parent & child is more important than parents sexuality
WEEKS: Argued that the family is socially constructed. He also argued that in postmodern society there's now an increased acceptance of homosexuality.
Support- MORGAN said it's pointless trying to make large scale generalisations about the family. Everyone's view & experience is different
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THE RAPOPORTS: Argued that family diversity has increased rapidly in recent years. They identified 5 key types of diversity
ORGANISATIONAL DIVERSITY: The many different ways in which modern families are organised- some have 2 wage earners, some have a female breadwinner etc
CULTURAL DIVERSITY: Britain is now a multi cultural society. Each culture has a slightly different family structure etc Asian families tend to have more extended families
SOCIAL CLASS DIVERSITY: there are differences in child rearing and work relationships between working class and middle class families eg working class families tend to be more traditional and male dominated
LIFE STAGE DIVERSITY: the family changes according to the stage of the family in life eg couples with young children are different to elderly couples whose children have left home
GENERATIONAL DIVERSITY: younger people are more likely to cohabit and accept same sex relationships than older ones.