Sociology- Personal life perspective
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- Created on: 28-02-19 17:01
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- The personal life perspective on families
- What do they say about Marxists and feminists
- Argues that Marxist and feminist theories suffer from two weaknesses
- They tend to asume that the traditional nuclear family is the dominant family type
- Ignores the increased diversity of families today
- They are all structural theories
- They all asume that families and their members are simply passive puppets manipulated by the structure of society to perform certain functions
- They tend to asume that the traditional nuclear family is the dominant family type
- In order to understand the family today, we must focus on the meanings its members give to their relationships and situations, rather than the functions
- Argues that Marxist and feminist theories suffer from two weaknesses
- What
- Strongly influenced by interactionist ideas argues to understand the family, we should start from the individuals point of view and the meanings they give to their relationships
- Contrasts to Functionalism,Marxism and feminism, who take bottom down approach
- Strongly influenced by interactionist ideas argues to understand the family, we should start from the individuals point of view and the meanings they give to their relationships
- Beyond ties of blood and marriage
- The personal life perspective also takes a wider view of relationships than just traditional family
- EG. may not wat to help your sister but maybe an elderly neighbour
- By focusing on peoples meanings, the PLP draws our attention to a range of other relationships that are important to people
- People who may be important
- Relationships with friends
- Fictive kin- Close friends treated like relatives
- Gay and lesbian chosen families- Supportive network of friends or others
- Relationships with dead relatives- In memories
- Relationships with pets- Tipper 2011 found children saw pets as part of the family
- Donor-conceived children
- Nordqvist and Smart found that the issue of blood and genes raised a range of feelings
- Some parents= Emphasised importance of social relationships over genetic ones
- May be problems such as people questioning why donar children and parents don't look similar
- Evaluation
- Nordqvist and smarts study illustrates the value of the personal life perspective as compared with top down, structural approaches
- Accused for taking too broad a view --> By including a wide range of personal relationships, we ignore what is special about blood relationships
- good as it recognises the relatedness is not always positive. EG- DV
- What do they say about Marxists and feminists
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