Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Modernity and Family
Diversity
- Based on changes brought
about by modern, industrial
society
- Marriage and Nuclear
family central, but
increasingly instability
develops
- Giddens
- Marriage became
based on romantic love
rather than economics
in 18th sentury
- Late modernity
- sex can be for pleasure and
relationships and marriage no
longer seen as perminant
- Marriage now based on
confluent love
- couples no longer stay
together if relationship is
not beneficial to both
- Divorce and relationship
breakdown become
common
- Tradition and
societal norms no
longer tie people
together
- People
focussing on
improving their
own lives
- relationships in modern
world
- Beck and Beck-Gersheim
- Individualisation
characteristic of modern life
- more
opportunities
for individuals
- esp. women
- people seek emotional
security from family
- as little security or
intimacy in
workplace
- No accepted
formula about
relationships
- so we have to work out own
solutions
- conflict results from increased
choice and uncertainly and from
pressures of work life
- Increased uncertainty leads
to chaotic personal
relationships
- Would explain
increase in
divorce