🔥☑️✅☑️✅🔹Postmodernist Arguments Flashcards
What do post modernists describe the postmodern era as?
A time of change, fluidity and uncertainty
What did Judith Stacey see family diversity as?
As a reflection of postmodern society as there is no one family form to which everyone aspires
In Judith Stacey’s words describe the family structure in the postmodern era
‘Like postmodern culture, contemporary family arrangement are diverse, fluid and unresolved’
What two factors influence our selection of family structure
Choose based on our emotional and social needs
What two theories in particular do postmodernists find outdated?
Marxism and functionalism
What does postmodernist Steve Taylor note about postmodernist society and the family?
What phrase describes this?
Postmodern socoety has been transformed into something resembling an endless shopping mall
‘Pick and mix’ society
What did the Rapoports classify family diversity into?
Organisational diversity Cultural diversity Class diversity Regional diversity Life cycle diversity
Which 2 Rapoports classifications should I talk about in the exam?
Organisational diversity
Regional diversity
What does organisational diversity refer to?
A variety of family structures that can be found in society e.g duel income families, non employed families and same sex parents
What does postmodernists Jacqueline and Burgoyne and David Clark (1992) claim?
Some individuals in a abnormal family type see themselves as ‘pioneers of an alternative lifestyle’
State some findings from Jacqueline Burgoyne and Davis Clark’s study
- people choose to remain unmarried
- benefits from more than 2 parental figures
- sense of achievement from reconstituted family
What % of Afro Caribbean families in 2000 were single parent?
What does this compare to as Gb on the whole?
50% compared to 22% in GB
What did Berthoud find about Afro Caribbean families?
They have the lowest marriage rate, highest proportion of Lone mothers and highest divorce rate
What are afro caribbean families?
Matrifocal
What did Ballard find about Asian families?
- patriarchal
- all family members live together
- men and woman have differentiated tasks (sex role differentiation)
What changes did Ballard find to Asian families due to migration?
- increasing women were finding work outside the home
- extended families were impractical
- some GB Asians rejected traditional authority structure
What is Izzat?
Asian Family honour
What did Berthoud and Beishon find about Asian families in 1997
More likely to marry earlier than white counterparts and cohabitation and divorce are rare
What did Kieran and Mueller find about class and family breakup?
The lower the class of a married couple the more likely they are to divorce, Hugh divorce rates are linked to poverty, low income and benefits
What did Eversley and Bonnerjea claim about regional diversity?
There is a relationship between location and family type
What are the 6 areas of England and Wales which have specific households (regional diversty)
- sun belt (affluent southern England) 2 parent upward mobile families
- the geriatric wards (coastal areas) elderly couples
- older industrial areas -traditional family structures
- inner city areas (single parent + ethnic minority)
- newly declining industrial areas (midlands) diverse
- rural areas -families with strong kinship
What do postmodernists believe about the government?
They influence our life choices e.g maternity pay suggests a woman’s role is a housewife
What did Pakulski and Waters find? (1996)
The contemporary family roles are a matter of choice, the roles interact with consumption and media image
What do postmodernists believe about masculinity and femininity?
Feminists and Masculinities have undergone change and remain diverse, supports the feminist view
What did Cheal for me in 1993?
Family has undergone major change because society is no longer predictable, people have choices in their lifetime and exercise those houses
What did David Morgan 1996 find?
The routines of family life give us the sense of being a family member rather than relationships
Who came up with plastic sexuality and what is it?
Giddens
-sex for pleasure and not reproduction
What did Judith Stacey find about women in her Silicon Valley study?
Found women were drivers of family change because they had opportunities to create new and varied family types
This is because family is based on the women or mother
What emerged in Judith Stacey’s Silicon Valley study?
New types of family e.g beanpole and blended develop and form around women
This has contributed to the movement towards gender equality and contribute towards many changes in family life
