family diversity Flashcards
parsons on family diversity
there is a functional fit between the nuclear family and the eocnomy. it is the perefect stucutre that helps perfom the functions of society such as the ireeducabel functions
therefore the nuclear family is the dominant family type
criticism of parsons view
young and wilmott aruge that the indsutralisation procress that led to the nuclear family emerging actually lead to an increase of extended family strucutres due to the emotional and economic purpose they provided families
and outdate vie the economy no longer looks as it did when the nuclear family suited it in the indisutral era
the new rights view on family diversity
the nuclear family is the one correst familt type and any other type is deviant
oppose co-habitation and gay marriage as it leads to a breakdown of stong societal morals
murray argues that lone parent families socialise deviant norms due to the perverse inscetive that lone mothers have to stay single and unmployed for the perverse inscentive of getting benefits
bensons view on family diversity (new right)
marriage is better than co-habitation due to it being. less likely to brekadown when raising a child due to deliberate commitment needed
criticism of the new rights view on family diversity
the rate of cohabitation is higher amongest poorer social groups
smart argues that this is because poverty cuases breakdown rather than a lack of committment
chesters view on family diversity
chester argues that the domiannt family type is not a neo-conventional family type where both partners are wage earners
doesnt think that family diversity is wrong or deviant but argues that the nuclear family is still peoples aspirationin life and they are living in other famiyl stucutres unitl they get to be in a nuclear family
life cycles like being unmarried and widdows doesnt show a decrease in nuclear families as they were proably once in or will be in a nuckear family
the rappaports view on family diversity
aruged that family diversity is good and shows the modern family adapting to a pluralistic society
5 different forms of family diversity causes
- organisational ( different cultures have different famiyl structures)
- social class (poor more likley to be single parents)
- life style (widdows, gay)
- generations (differente genertions have differnt vieas onwhat family should look like
criticisms of the rapaports
cheal- post modernism goes further than rappaprts to explain family diversity as we are no longer in a socierty with a predetermined strcutruer there is more room for choice adn risk
no longer predetermined by you age, cultrue of social class but more about the choices you make
stacey and postmodernity
greater choice and freeodm has benefitted women as it has allowed them to be free to make their own choices more
a study of women in sillicone valley found that women rather than men have been main agents of family cahnge
ex the divroce extended family wehre the members are connected by a new and ex wife actually support eachother
postmosdern famiies are diverse and shaped by active decisions no pre-determined social strucutres
giddens choice adn equality
marriage has been transformed by greater choice adn equality
ex law changes, women’s positition has lead to more diverse family type s
marriages now held togehr by pure relatiosnhips wehre they onyl ast as long as the relatiosnhip is serving the ebst interestes of those involved
same sex relationships pioneered the pure relationships as they didnt have the tradtioanl norms of gender roles within a relationship to follow to had a relationship based more on equality
criticism of giddens choise cnad equality
plpl
smart agrues that due to the conectedness theis sthat people have less choice and freedom as giddens makes out becuase peole will always ot be bound to present adn past relationships
beck: the negotiated family
we now live ina. risk society which menas that choice are made by humas on a basis of risk and reward rather than ebing fixed by partrairchal and traditional norms
thereofre greater gender equality and indivdualsiation has led to a negotatied family
crisiticm of becks negotated family
may argues that becks theroy is a n idealised view of family through the lense of a white middel class man ingores that women and ethnic minorities dont have the power to choose as much as beck suggests
plp conectedness theory
smart argues that we are social being wo forma. web fo interconecctedness by the relationships we form
therfore humans dont always have a lot of choice in life as we will alwys be infleunced by our present and past relationships
ex, paretns who seperate are still linked through children
