Personal Life Perspective

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  • Created on: 14-06-17 18:50
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  • Personal Life Perspective on the Family
    • Core Concepts
      • Believe we have choice in creating our own families
      • Focuses on meaning its members give to their relationships
      • Bottom-up approach
      • Influenced by Interactionists and Postmodern approaches
      • Micro Approach
    • Clarke
      • Believes we should ask about relationships within a family - married couples
      • Marriage is something we do, not have
        • It needs constant attention and effort
      • Looks at individuals and how they make sense of what they do
    • Nordquist and Smart
      • Researched donor-conceived families
      • Family shouldn't be based on blood but out social connections
      • Defining parents should be based on time and effort
      • People construct and define relationships/families not blood and genetics
    • Leach
      • Family is an overloaded circuit board due to the isolation and little communication with the community
      • Conflict arises due to pressures we put on individual members
        • Smaller kinship units and less social relations/connections with community members
    • Laing
      • Families draw defensive barriers between themselves and the outside world
      • Constant demand for attention causes emotional destress
      • Parents start arguing and the child is stuck in the middle
        • Creating two personalities within the child and a dream world they can escape to - SCHIZOPHRENIA
          • E.g. Jane and her dream tennis game

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