Contemporary Perspective Of The Family Flashcards
Giddens
Reflectivity leads to plastic sexuality and pure relationships
Beck and beckgurshine
Individualisation leads to the chaos of love
Stacey
Post modernism has led to no fix family form and the break down of heterosexuality
Morgan
Family practises not structure and there’s a blurred line between friends and family
Weeks
Sexual and family diversity is an example of choice in postmodernism
Harven
Life course analysis shows the power of the individual to find a ‘family’
Smart
Research into family should focus on what they give meaning to - fictive kin
Nordqvist and Smart
Donor conceived family- social bonds over genetic bonds
Budgen
Friends as family- more enriching due to the lack of obligation