Contemporary Perspectives Of Family

Question 1

Giddens - Late modernist

Answer 1

Reflexivity(more choice) leads to plastic sexuality and pure relationships

Question 2

Beck and Beck-Gershein

Late modernity - Second modernist

Answer 2

Individualisation leads to the chaos of love

Question 3

Stacy (Postmodernist)

Answer 3

Postmodernism has lead to no fixed family form and the breakdown of contemporary heterosexual sexuality

Question 4

Morgan

Postmodernist

Answer 4

We should talk about family practices not family structures - Now have a blurred line between family and friends

Question 5

Weeks - Postmodernist

Answer 5

Sexual and family diversity are examples of choice in postmodernism

Question 6

Hareven - Postmodernist

Answer 6

Life course analysis shows the power of an individual to choose their (family)

Question 7

Smart - PLP - Postmodernist/interpretivist

Answer 7

Focus on the family should

Question 8

Nord avait and Smart - PLP Thinker

Answer 8

Doner conceived families, social bonds are valued over biological bonds

Question 9

Budgen - PLP

Answer 9

Friends as family, some say these relationships are more enriching due to the lack of obligation