Personal Life Perspective
- Created by: BWards18
- 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
- Creating two personalities within the child and a dream world they can escape to - SCHIZOPHRENIA
- Core Concepts
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