Personal life perspective

Question 1

View on the family

Answer 1

We choose the families we want and need, but these are based on past experiences rather then an open choice

Question 2

Giddens and Beck

Answer 2

We have been disembedded from traditional roles in society, which means we are able to choose the family that meets our needs and wants.

This has been due to:
- cotraception
- female independance

Question 3

Stacy

Answer 3

Greater freedom and choice has benefitted women enabling them to free themselves from patriarchal oppression and shape their family arrangements around their needs

e.g ex partners playing a financial role

Question 4

EVAL - choice

Answer 4

Exaggerates the amount of choice people have. Traditional structures do still exist, and shape peoples choices

Question 5

EVAL - May

Answer 5

Beck and Giddens view of the individual is simply an idealised version of a white middle class man