Family Diversity Flashcards
Carol Smart
- wrote book ‘personal life’
- range of relationships that are important but may not be considered as ‘family’
e. g mums best friend, best friend, pets.
believes family is not in decline but just changing and more diverse and complex than ever before.
Rapoports 1982
-Cultural diversity
differences in lifestyle, e.g black matrifocal
-Organisational diversity
variations in fam structure, hh and division of labour
-Class diversity
diff in socialisation
-Stage in life-cycle
differences in newly married couples with/without children
-Cohort 1946-64
babys born during baby boom likely to be in dual earner families
Postmodernist view to family diversity
believe that in our postmodern society we have 2 main distinct characteristics:
- fragmentation and diversity
increasingly f with more culture and lifestyle, we can pick and choose our identity
- rapid social change
new technology and media has changed space time barrier, life is less predictable
Giddens
argues marriage and the family have been transformed by greater choice and more equal relationships between men dn women
- contraception has allowed intimacy
- women have gained independence
Beck
‘risk society’ we are more aware of risks as decisions can have huge life effects.
no more trad roles that we have to conform to
can pick our identity
e.g no more marriage and expressive role
Negotiated family
Do not conform to the trad family norm but according to their own wishes and how each members wants to live their life.
Chester
argues against the idea that family changes is a vast change
he argues that parent and children household are still most popular
only 8% life alone
either windowed and young so will get married
cereal packet same sex lone household size immigration
nuclear family increased, legalised and adoption increased divorce and benefits decreased due to ageing population increased nuclear and single
