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Last lesson Friday:
24 mark questions – 2 minute
mind maps
Past paper questions
Po-mo and Marxism
revision
INDEPENDENTLY
•5 minutes - From memory, fill in as much
of the perspectives revision table as
possible.
•2 minutes – compare yours with the
person next to you
Feminism Marxism Radical
feminism
How they
see the
family
Key
thinkers
Key terms
Evaluation
Marxism
feminism
Liberal
feminism
New Right
Fragmentation
of society
Life course
Individualism
Postmodernism
and the family
Surveillance
Choice
Diversity
1. Postmodernism
•Foucault:
Panopticon society
•Donzelot:
Unequal family surveillance –
Troubled Families Programme
(Conservative Party)
1. Postmodernism
•Anthony Giddens (late modernity)
Family and marriage has changed due to greater
equality and choice
• Contraception has allowed sex and intimacy rather
than reproduction as the main point of the
reproduction
• Independence of women
1. Postmodernism
•Hareven (1978)
The life course
Choice
Diversity
1. Postmodernism
•Claire Holdsworth and Morgan (2005)
The life course
Individual meaning
‘family practices’ not structures
1. Postmodernism
•Claire Holdsworth and Morgan (2005)
The life course
Individual meaning
‘family practices’ not structures
Society is fragmented
1. Postmodernism
•Cheal (1993) chaotic
postmodernity.
•There is no single type of family
(eg: lone parents) only
FAMILIES.
1. Postmodernism
•Beck
Decline of the traditional
Lack of stability
Rise of the negotiated family
1. Postmodernism
•Weeks
New Right losing the battle
Family diversity undeniable
Growing acceptance of diversity
2. Marxism
Engels:
Nuclear families (monogamy)
were developed as a means of
passing on private property to
heirs.
2. Marxism
Althusser
In order for capitalism to survive, the working
class must submit to the ruling class.
He suggested the family is one way of passing on
the ideology and beliefs of the ruling class.
Althusser sees the ruling class as almost tricking
the working class.
2. Marxism
Zaretsky
The family performs an
ideological function, offering the
worker a ‘haven’ from the harsh
exploitive world of capitalism.
A very quick concept test…
•A key term will be displayed for five seconds
•You need to write down the relevant
perspective/s
FALSE CLASS
CONSCIOUSNESS
SOCIAL SOLIDARITY
HEGEMONY
FALSE CLASS
CONSCIOUSNESS
MERITOCRACY
SOCIALISATION
COLLECTIVE
CONSCIOUSNESS
SOCIAL ORDER
PATRIARCHY
PROLETARIAT
LEGITIMATION OF
INEQUALITY
SOCIAL
REPRODUCTION
CULTURAL
DEPRIVATION
SOCIAL ROLE
CAPITALISM
ALIENATION
RESERVE ARMY OF
LABOUR
RESERVE ARMY OF
LABOUR
5 minute paragraph
Individually write a paragraph evaluating one argument of either po-mo or Marxism:
1. Assess the argument in the first sentence:
Postmodernism offers sociologists a useful framework to help understand British
society today…
2. Apply postmodernists to support this assertion:
Postmodernists such as Cheal and Hareven accept that there is a lot of diversity
today and unlike the New Right and Functionalists, they do not think that this
fragmentation is a problem.
3. Apply examples to support the argument:
Statistics definitely appear to support the postmodernist argument. Single parent
families and childless couples accounted for 31% and 29% of all families in 2013
respectively; cohabitation has surpassed 6 million and interestingly, 3.7% of
married people are living apart. As Morgan argues, family structure is an
unsuitable term today, family practices is much more apt. Families today are fluid
and diverse.
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Whilst
Evidently
Seemingly
It could be argued that
While
On the contrary
Rather
Hence
Consequently
Furthermore
Although
In contrast
On the other hand
Resultantly
Thus
Therefore
Moreover,
Postmodernism offers sociologists a useful framework to
help understand British society today. Postmodernists
such as Cheal and Hareven accept that there is a lot of
diversity today and unlike the New Right and
Functionalists, they do not think that this fragmentation
is a problem. Statistics definitely appear to support the
postmodernist argument that families today are fluid
and diverse. Single parent families and childless couples
accounted for 31% and 29% of all families in 2013
respectively; cohabitation has surpassed 6 million and
interestingly, 3.7% of married people are living apart. As
Morgan argues, family structure is an unsuitable term
today, family practices is much more apt.
The next paragraph…
• Always try and link your opening statement to the last paragraph:
Indeed the statistics and a whole host of sociologists support the
postmodernist view rather than the view espoused by the functionalist,
George Murdock that the nuclear family is universal. Robert Chester’s
argument that the nuclear family has merely changed into a neo-traditional
family also seems out of date.
Instead, sociologists such as the Rappoports support the postmodernists
stating that "Families in Britain today are in a transition from coping in a
society in which there was a single overriding norm of what family life should
be like to a society in which a plurality of norms are recognised as legitimate
and, indeed, desirable".
Bingo!
Functionalism
Radical feminist
Murdock
Engels
Equal pay act
Proletariat
Socialisation
Marxism
Marxist feminist
Parsons
Ansley
Delphy & Leonard
Domestic violence
Men
Feminism
Liberal feminist
Althusser
Patriarchy
Bourgeoisie
Beechey
Capitalism