Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Postmodernism & Family Diversity -
Giddens, Beck + Personal Life
Perspective
- The individualisation thesis
- Giddens
- Beck
- do-it-yourself
biography > standard
biography
Anmerkungen:
- instead of growing up to a certain path already made up for you, you decide your own life and make your own choices.
- traditional social structures such as class,
gender and family have less influence on us
- people can choose their own life
path, fixed roles are no longer a
thing
Anmerkungen:
- e.g. people were expected to get married and to take up their appropriate gender role
- DISEMBEDDED
- Individualisation thesis' criticism
- it exaggerates how much choice
we have about family relationships
- traditional norms still
limit people's choices
- we are not free floating individuals
- Giddens
- Choice &
equality
Anmerkungen:
- family and marriage has been transformed by greater choice and more equality between women and men.
- Contraception
- sex + intimacy > reproduction
- Feminism
- more independence due to
feminism and more
opportunities in education
and work
- IN THE PAST relationships were
traditionally held together
by laws or tradition
- TODAY couples are free
to define their
relationship themselves
Anmerkungen:
- e.g. nowadays, couples don't have to marry to have children and divorce is readily accessible
- Giddens
- Relationships
- Relationships no longer held together by
law, religion, social norms or traditional
institutions
- The pure relationship
- individual choice &
equality
- solely existent to satisfy
each partner's needs
- held together by
love, happiness and
sexual attraction
- + choice = - stability
- relationship as a rolling contract
rather than permanent
commitment
- + FAMILY DIVERSITY
- lone-parent families
- one person
households
- stepfamilies
- and more
- Giddens
- Same sex
couples as
pioneers
- creating
new family
types
- creating more
democratic and equal
relationships
- not influenced by tradition
like heterosexual
relationships
- family structure based on
each partner's needs rather
than traditional pre-existing norms
- Weeks
- friendship networks functioned as kinship
networks to gay and lesbian couples
- Beck
- The negotiated family
- risk socetiety
- tradition has less
influence and people
have more choice
- making choices involves calculating
the risks and rewards of the different
options open to us
- greater
gender
equality
- women now
expect
equality
both at
work and
marriage
- greater
individualism
- people's actions are based on
self-interest rather than by
obligation to others
- patriarchal
family
replacement
- according to the
members'
expectations and
whishes
- + equal = - stable
- individuals are free to
leave if their needs are
not met
- + family diversity
- The Zombie Family
- people turn to the family looking for security, in
reality family relationships are facing more risk
and uncertainty than ever before
- family cannot offer stability
neither security anymore
therefore its members can't lean
on it looking for support
- it appears to be alive but it's in fact dead
- Beck
- The Personal Life Perspective
- Smart
- May