TOPIC 1 - POSTMODERNIST Perspective Flashcards
What do Postmodernists argued about the family?
argue that recent SOCIAL CHANGES such as INCREASING SOCIAL FRAGMENTATION and DIVERSITY have made FAMILY more a matter of PERSONAL CHOICE and as a result families have become MORE UNSTABLE and MORE DIVERSE
What are the 2 Social Changes associated with Postmodernity
- DIVERSITY and FRAGMENTATION
- RAPID SOCIAL CHANGE
What does STACEY associate change in the family with?
associates change in the family with a MOVEMENT AWAY from a single DOMINANT family type TO a GREATER VARIETY in FAMILY RELATIONSHIP
What did Judith Stacey argue?
WOMEN have MORE FREEDOM than ever before to SHAPE their FAMILY ARRANGEMENT to MEET their NEEDS and FREE themselves from PATRIARCHAL OPPRESSION
What Stacey find out from her Study in Silicon Valley , California
found that WOMEN rather than men are the DRIVING FORCE behind CHANGES in the FAMILY
MANY women REJECTED the TRADITIONAL HOUSEWIFE ROLE and had chosen extremely varied life paths
What is the new type of family that Stacey identified?
“ The Divorce - Extended Family “ - members are connected by divorce rather than marriage, for example ex in laws, or former husbands, ew partners
What does GIDDENS argue about choice and equality?
in recent decades the FAMILY and MARRIAGE have been TRANSFORMED by GREATER CHOICE and a MORE EQUAL RELATIONSHIP between men and women
transformation occurred because :
- CONTRACEPTION
- WOMEN HAVE GAINED INDEPENDENCE
What did Giddens argued about how the traditional family were held together in the past?
traditional family RELATIONSHIPS were HELD TOGETHER by EXTERNAL FACTORS such as the laws governing the marriage contract and by powerful norms against divorce and sex outside marriage
What does GIDDENS argue about the PURE RELATIONSHIP?
what HOLDS relationships together today is NO LONGER LAW, RELIGION, SOCIAL NORMS.
Instead, intimate relationships nowadays are BASED on INDIVIDUAL CHOICE and EQUALITY
pure relationship is typical of today’s late modern society , in which relationships are no longer bound by traditional norms
What are 2 CRITICISMS of POSTMODERN VIEWS on the FAMILY?
- LATE-MODERNISTS suggest that EVEN THOUGH people have MORE FREEDOM, there is STILL a STRUCTURE which SHAPES people’s DECISIONS
- CONTEMPORARY FEMINISTS DISAGREE with Postmodernism, pointing out that in most cases TRADITIONAL GENDER ROLES which DISADVANTAGE WOMEN remain the NORM
