social action & interpretivist Flashcards

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Social action & interpretivist

Backett - family life ?

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  • 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”
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Backett evaluation?

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  • consider structure of society to understand power imbalance
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Clark - marriages are all different?

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  • 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
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clark evaluation?

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  • only focuses on micro aspects of family life
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life course analysis - modern life cycle?

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Birth - childhood - teenage/youth - young adults - paid worker - marriage - children - grandchildren - retirement - death

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life course analysis?

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  • 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”
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LCA - Hareven?

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  • flexability & variation in people’s family choices
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personal life perspective ?

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  • Family has changed in recent years, different for each individuals
  • individuals choose their personal life & attach meaning to various relationships
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social action & interactionist

PLP - postmodernism ?

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  • complete freedom & choice to make decisions which suit us individuals
  • PLP recognise our choices & decisions are rooted in meanings we attach
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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
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PLP smart - memory?

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  • what’s significant to them, relationships, revealing of feelings & priorities
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PLP smart - biography?

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  • case studies autonomy, good validity, different,
  • revealing experiences & members of family, not treating them as 1 shared experience , memory & biographical
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PLP smart - embeddedness?

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  • web of relationships, of the past carried into present gens, don’t end w death
  • symbols that keep love going
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PLP smart - relationality?

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  • not an individual, web of relations EG sister, friend, colleague etc
  • relationships affect behaviour, personality & who you’re
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PLP smart - imaginary?

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  • 2 relms of family life: “ live with “ & “ live by “
  • inhabit our imagination & effect routine practices, should behave/act planning holidays
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Morgan - family practises?

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  • it’s what we do that creates our sense of “being a member of family” EG empty dishwasher
  • conflict can arise when family members have different expectations/beliefs of eachother