Topic 6: Family diversity and the life course (notes)
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- Family diversity and the life course
- Modernism and the nuclear family
- The new right
- Conservative and anti-feminist perspective
- Opposed to family diversity
- Only one correct and normal family
- Nuclear family
- Lone-parent families = unnatural and harmful
- Disapprove women going out to work
- Marriage = essential
- Benefits
- Undermine the traditional family by discouraging men from working
- 'Dependency culture'
- Criticisms
- Feminists
- OAKLEY
- Wrongly assume the husband and wives roles
- Nuclear family = patriarchal depression
- OAKLEY
- Little evidence that lone-parents are part of a 'dependency culture'
- Feminists
- CHESTER: Neo-conventional family
- Increased family diversity in recent years
- The move away from the nuclear family
- Dual-earner family
- WILLMOTT AND YOUNG
- Symmetrical family
- Most people choose to live in alternative families
- Evidence
- Most people live in families headed by a married couple
- Divorcees re-marry
- Cohabitation has increased
- Births outside marriage have increased
- He still sees the nuclear family has being dominant
- RAPOPRTS: Five types of family diversity
- Organisational
- Different family roles
- Joint-conjugal roles
- Dual earners
- Cultural
- Different ethic groups have different structures
- Asian families - extened
- Different ethic groups have different structures
- Social class
- Income differences
- Life-stage
- Differ according to their life stages
- Widowers
- Newly weds
- Children who have left home
- Differ according to their life stages
- Generational
- Untitled
- Organisational
- The new right
- Postmodernity and the life course
- Emphasis the nuclear family and the dominant type
- Modernists
- Ignore two factors
- Individuals make choices about their family life and relationships
- Greater choice about personal relationships
- Life course analysis
- Has two strengths
- Focuses on what family members think is important
- Suitable for studying families in today's society
- Focuses on meanings people give to certain choices and experiences
- Has two strengths
- Family practices
- Influenced by beliefs
- Allows us to see why conflict may occur within families
- MORGAN
- How er construct our life course and relationships
- "Closer to the realities of everyday experiences"
- The family is more fragmented
- Family = clear cut
- Functionalism
- Family = clear cut
- Family diversity
- CHEAL
- We no longer live in a modern world
- Family has entered a new chaotic, postmodern stage
- Advantages and disadvantages
- Greater freedom to individuals
- Greater risk of instability
- CHEAL
- GIDDENS: Choice and equality
- Contraception
- Women have gained independence
- BECK: 'risk society' and the negotiated family
- Tradition has less of an influence
- Why the patriarchal family has been undermined
- Greater gender equality
- Challenges male domination
- Women expect equality in work and marriage
- Greater individualism
- Actions are influenced by peoples interests not by what other people feel is right
- Greater gender equality
- STAEY: Divorce extended family
- Greater choice has benefited women
- Free women from patriarchal oppression
- WEEKS: The growing acceptance of diversity
- Shift since the 50s
- Church have less of an infulence
- Still are fairly traditional
- Sees the new right as fighting a loosing battle
- Two views in diversity
- For
- Post modernists
- Freedom to choose
- Feminists
- Steering away from a patriarchal family
- Post modernists
- Against
- The New Right
- Nuclear family = best
- The New Right
- For
- Emphasis the nuclear family and the dominant type
- Modernism and the nuclear family
- Differ according to their life stages
- Widowers
- Newly weds
- Children who have left home
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