Postmodern view on the family

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  • Postmodern view on the family
    • metanarratives
      • society is not orderly and predictable, sociological theories are big stories that cannot explain the diversity of personal relationships - cannot make generalised statements about family life
        • change to social order - rapidly changing society means that people are rejecting notions of the traditional family as the mainstay of the social order
    • individualism, diversity and consumer choice
      • disintegration of traditional family, growing diversity of households and personal relationships in which people choose to live
      • decline of tradition - people no longer feel tied to traditional ideas and expectations e.g rising divorce rates, cohabitation, gay couples etc

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