Sociology of Family Diversity: What is the Debate about Diversity? PART 3: Choice, Risk, Divorce

Sociology of Family Diversity: What is the Debate about Diversity? PART 3: Choice, Risk, Divorce
See 'Note Taking Questions' at the end of this description to improve your experience.
Modernists, Functionalists, and the New Right view the conventional nuclear family as the only normal family where other types are deviant.
Chester views the one major change as the neo-conventional family.
Beck argues that we now live in a ‘risk society’ whereby tradition has less influence and people have more choice. As a result of this, we are more aware of risks. This is because making choices involves calculating the risks and rewards of different actions.
Sociologists: Britain is no longer dominated by one family type. They argue that we should be celebrating family diversity.
This video includes concepts and sociologists such as:
Beck
Weeks
Stacey
Two Views of Family Diversity
Divorce-Extended Family
Risk Society & the Negotiated Family
Giddens: Choice and Equality
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'Note Taking Questions'
Giddens claims that family and marriage have recently been changed by greater choice and equal roles for men and women. How/Why?
Revision: Rapoports are very critical of the New Right. Explain.
Why has the patriarchal family been undermined according to Beck?
What is the divorce-extended family?
Explain the arguments for and against family diversity.