family diversity Flashcards
rapoport and rapoport - CLOGS
cultural diversity life stage diversity organisational diversity generational diversity social class diversity
chester - cautions against exaggerating the extent and significanve of family diversity
- been a change from nuclear family to neo-conventional family
- most people do not live in an alternative to nuclear family on a long term basis
- statistics on family take a snapshot view, therefore we should look at it from a longitudinal perspective.
chester is criticised for ignore the multiple paths that are now available to people in their life course.
life cycle diversity - led to diversity of family types at different stages of the family life cycle.
feminism and family diversity
positive - frees women from patriarchal control
women have more freedom to choose family forms that meet their own needs
shows a rejection of the nuclear family and the triple shift it places on women
majority of divorce petitions are initiated by women
post modernists
changes to postmodern society creates family diversity
giddens: pure relationship, people have choice - they are free to define the relationship rather than tradition
beck: traditional nuclear family has been replaced by negotiated families - members discuss and compromise about their expectations of each other. - because of increase individualisation of individualisation
stacey: greater freedom allows them to create new types of family e.g extended family.
personal life perspective (can be used as evaluation for postmodernists)
smart - instead of using individualisation thesis we should use Connectedness thesis.
– argues that we live in a network of relationships which influence the options we have in family relationships e.g people may have obligations such as looking after elderly relatives
functionalism and family diversity
fletcher: more lone parent families exist bv higher expectations of marriage - ppl are less willing to tolerate an unhappy marriage.
doesn’t mean marriage is in decline - its still popular! rate of remarriage is high
fletcher: nuclear families are best at primary socialisation and stabilisation of adult personality - implies that other family types are less able to perform the functions of the family
new right
murray - family diversity has increased dramatically due to expansion of state benefits and decline of tradition increase of welfare dependence and rise of nanny state undermines self-reliance and encourages divorce of the underclass he says family diversity is bad for society , especially rise in lone parent families = strong role model for boys and girls = unemployed criminals
