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Mind Map by dottydiva96, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by dottydiva96
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Postmodernity
and the life course
- Individuals make choices about family life
and relationships. Structural approaches
wrongly assume that our actions are shaped
and dictated by the 'needs of society'
- Family diversity increased by choice;
we don't have a 'best' fit family
- Hareven - life
course analysis
- There's flexibility and
variations in people's
family lives and
choices
- Timing and
sequence of events -
when to marry, have
children, come out as
gay etc
- Timing and
sequence of events -
when to marry, have
children, come out as
gay etc
- Holdsworth and
Morgan look at
youngsters
leaving home,
and how other
influence their
decision
- Life course
analysis focuses on
the meanings
people give
life-changing
events, choices and
decisions in order to
understand how thy
constructed their
family life
- Hareven
favours
structured,
in-depth
interviews
- Life course
analysis has
two major
stregths
- Focuses on what
individuals see as
important, not
what sociologists
think they feel;
gives broad range
of views
- Suitable for studying present
families where we have more choice
and family diversity - family structure
increasingly just a result of choices
made by members
- Focuses on what
individuals see as
important, not
what sociologists
think they feel;
gives broad range
of views
- There's flexibility and
variations in people's
family lives and
choices
- Family practices
- Morgan uses this
concept to
describe routine
actions through
which we create
our sense of
'being family
member'
- Family practices
influenced by our
beliefs we have about
our rights and
obligations within the
famiy
- Allows us to see why
there may be conflict
within the family -
beliefs or expectations
held of others
- e.g. men expected to work,
women clean and cook
- e.g. men expected to work,
women clean and cook
- Allows us to see why
there may be conflict
within the family -
beliefs or expectations
held of others
- Morgan sees this as a better way to
describe how we construct families - they
are not concrete structures, but people
that do
- Morgan argues
that as society
becomes more
fragmented,
families etc are
less clear-cut,
boundaries are
blurred
- Weeks' idea of "chosen
families" and "friendship as
kinship" suggests that,
among homosexuals,
family and non-family are
less clear
- Morgan does not
reject structural
theories completely
- Wider society may
still influence over
family members'
expectations and
actions
- e.g. gender norms,
differences in job
opportunities may
dictate men to feel
obligated as
breadwinners and
women as
homemakers
- e.g. gender norms,
differences in job
opportunities may
dictate men to feel
obligated as
breadwinners and
women as
homemakers
- Wider society may
still influence over
family members'
expectations and
actions
- Morgan uses this
concept to
describe routine
actions through
which we create
our sense of
'being family
member'
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