Family Diversity Debate Flashcards
What is family diversity diversifying ?
Clear societal changes leading to greater choice and Variety of family forms
What are the points FOR family diversifying ?
Postmodernism
- reflexivity and confluent love: Giddens
- risk society and individualisation: Beck
- Judith Stacey (Pam and dotty) and postmodernism family
What is the postmodernist view on family diversitfying ?
- Risk : decisions centred around avoidance of risk: marriage, children
- Individualisation: decisions based on individual needs so divorce is suits them or children before marriage
- reflexivity: constantly questioning happiness and decisions
- confluent love: seek relationships that fulfill emotional needs and stay as long as they do this
What does postmodernism Pam and dotty say ?
- Pam and Dotty are both married and worked to support husbands income
- dotty = physically abused by husband
- both left and Pam remarried
- dotty took back husbands after heart attack along as he did the housework
What does Stacey celebrate
The decline of traditional nuclear family
Why did Stacey celebrate the decline of traditional Nuclear family ?
It was always a myth as devalues the rich variety of kinship stories
What is Pam and dotty examples of ?
Individuals can extend or redefine families and create families that work best for them in personal circumstances
Who argues that family diversity has been exaggerated
- Neo conventional family: Robert Chester
- Gittins: family ideology
- leach : cereal packet family
What does Robert Chester: Neo conventional argue ?
Families are not strictly nuclear family but based on the nuclear model
How does Robert Chester: Neo conventional describe Families are not strictly nuclear family but based on the nuclear model ?
Neo conventional families
Ways according to Chester families are Neo-conventional ?
- parents cohabit than Marry
- same sex couples
- shared gender/domestic roles
- both have careers
What are all the examples of Neo-conventional a variation of according to Chester ?
All variations of nuclear family
Why are surveys and census misleading according to Chester ?
Based on snapshot
Why exactly is surveys and census being based on snapshot misleading according to Chester ?
Only shows how many individuals are based on different types of family at a single point in time
In reality how are individuals In households according to Chester ?
Individuals more in and out of household at different stages in life
According to Gittins: family ideology , what consensus is there in the uk ?
Nuclear family is a normal family type
Why is the consensus maintained according to Gittins : family ideology ?
Due to powerful ideology of the nuclear family
What does the ideology of the powerful ideology of the nuclear family do according to Gittins ?
Labels alternative family forms as undesirable
What is nuclear family still deemed as in the uk according to Gittins ?
Still desirable and dominant type
Why is nuclear family seen as desirable according to Gittins ?
Due to the ideology of the nuclear family being strong it deters people from choosing alternative family type
According to leach: cereal packet family , how does mass media portray the nuclear family ?
Portrays nuclear family as norm through advertising
Example of how nuclear family is portrayed in ads according to leach: cereal packet family ?
Cereal ads family smiling happily and mom cooks and does the chores for husband and children
What does ads of nuclear family show according to leach: cereal packet family ?
Shows examples of what everyone should be like and encourages people to aspire
By ads making nuclear family desirable and what people should aspire to be like according to leach : cereal packet family what does this support ?
Supports ideology of nuclear family being powerful and normal
