Post Modernists
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- Created on: 25-02-18 18:36
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- POST MODERNIST
- BECK
- we live in a 'risk society' where traditional values have less influence on the lives of individuals
- Individuals are more dominant - making a choice calculates the risk & rewards of actions
- believe there is a much wider range of living opportunities e.g. single parent, or lone person household
- Individuals no longer constrained by social structures
- Society become fragmented - mass of individuals making their own choices
- 2 KEY FEATURES
- Diversity - Stacey - no longer feel bound by traditional ideas & expectations
- Consumer Choice - individuals pick & choose relationships that suit them & change these over time
- CRITICISMS
- no value judgements on what is the 'best' family type
- over emphasis on the degree of choice in peoples lives (esp. women)
- ignores that most family patterns remain fairly traditional
- Beck - people live in a 'risk society' - have a lot of choices which leads to risk
- BECK
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