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Postmodernism - Coggle Diagram
Postmodernism
Evaluation
Personal life perspectives - Exaggerates how much choice people have about family. Traditional social structures do still exist and will influence peoples choices still. Personal experiences and the media will impact decisions and choices that people make.
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Over stresses diversity - Most individuals actually experience only one or two different types of family in their lifetime not diversity.
Vanessa May - "Beck and Giddens view of the individuals is simply an idealised version of a white middle class man".
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ELIZABETH BECK-GERNSHEIM (2002) - Individualisation, diversity and lifestyle choice
Argues that relationships and family life are so diverse that there are no longer any clear norms about what a modern relationship should consist of.
Being 'coupled up' doesn't necessary involve living together, as the increasing amount of 'Living Apart Together' relationships testifies to.
People today call their relationships different things, there are fewer 'married' couples and more 'couples'.
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Challenges traditional views by emphasising the diversity of family structures and the fluidity of family roles.
Questions the idea of a universal family model and highlights the influence of a culture, individualism, and globalisation on family dynamics.
WEEKS (2000) - Argues there has been a change of attitudes which has a growing acceptance of sexual and family diversity. There are more favourable attitudes towards issues such as cohabitation and homosexuality making family diversity possible.
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