social action & interpretivist Flashcards
Social action & interpretivist
Backett - family life ?
- family life is negotiated, families change over time
- parents & children socially construct & learn relationships
- socialisatin process: parents make sense of child through series of meanings relating to child development & cope w/ problems in behaviour w/ belief they’ll “ grow out of it”
social action & interpretivist
Backett evaluation?
- consider structure of society to understand power imbalance
social action & interpretivist
Clark - marriages are all different?
- couple & marriage experience differently
1. drifting - unclear about their future as a couple & live day to day
2. surfacing - reconstituted families dealing w/ continueing problems from former spouses & children
3. establishing - conciously establish their future together saving homes/children
4. struggling - experience financhal diffulculties, unemployment & one pessimissive
social action & interpretivist
clark evaluation?
- only focuses on micro aspects of family life
social action & interpretivist
life course analysis - modern life cycle?
Birth - childhood - teenage/youth - young adults - paid worker - marriage - children - grandchildren - retirement - death
social action & interpretivist
life course analysis?
- people go throuh different life stages bason on the choices they make
- different to traditional life cycle, everyone would live same life : NF
- LCA focus on individuals as unit of analysis rather than “family unit”
social action & interpretivist
LCA - Hareven?
- flexability & variation in people’s family choices
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personal life perspective ?
- Family has changed in recent years, different for each individuals
- individuals choose their personal life & attach meaning to various relationships
social action & interactionist
PLP - postmodernism ?
- complete freedom & choice to make decisions which suit us individuals
- PLP recognise our choices & decisions are rooted in meanings we attach
social action & interpretivist
PLP - smart ?
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- bonds between people, study personal life considering:
1. memory: we remember what is important to us
2. biography: we have individual life stories
3. embededness : we are embedded into others lives
4.relationality: our lives exist in relation to others
5. imaginary: we evisage a perfect personal lifen& this is important to us
social action & interpretivist
PLP smart - memory?
- what’s significant to them, relationships, revealing of feelings & priorities
social action & interpretivist
PLP smart - biography?
- case studies autonomy, good validity, different,
- revealing experiences & members of family, not treating them as 1 shared experience , memory & biographical
social action & interpretivist
PLP smart - embeddedness?
- web of relationships, of the past carried into present gens, don’t end w death
- symbols that keep love going
social action & interpretivist
PLP smart - relationality?
- not an individual, web of relations EG sister, friend, colleague etc
- relationships affect behaviour, personality & who you’re
social action & interpretivist
PLP smart - imaginary?
- 2 relms of family life: “ live with “ & “ live by “
- inhabit our imagination & effect routine practices, should behave/act planning holidays