1. Last lesson - Friday: 24 mark questions – 2 minute mind maps Past paper questions

2. Po-mo and Marxism revision

3. 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

4. Marxism Feminism Radical feminism Marxism feminism New Right
Liberal feminism
New Right
How they see the family
Key thinkers
Key terms
Evaluation

5. Postmodernism and the family
Fragmentation of society
Life course
Individualism
Postmodernism and the family
Surveillance
Diversity
Choice

6. 1. Postmodernism Foucault: Panopticon society Donzelot:
Unequal family surveillance – Troubled Families Programme (Conservative Party)

7. 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

8. 1. Postmodernism
Hareven (1978)
The life course
Choice
Diversity

9. 1. Postmodernism The life course Individual meaning
Claire Holdsworth and Morgan (2005)
The life course
Individual meaning
‘family practices’ not structures

10. 1. Postmodernism The life course Individual meaning
Claire Holdsworth and Morgan (2005)
The life course
Individual meaning
‘family practices’ not structures
Society is fragmented

11. 1. Postmodernism Cheal (1993) chaotic postmodernity.
There is no single type of family (eg: lone parents) only FAMILIES.

12. 1. Postmodernism Beck Decline of the traditional Lack of stability
Rise of the negotiated family

13. 1. Postmodernism Weeks New Right losing the battle
Family diversity undeniable
Growing acceptance of diversity

14. 2. Marxism
Engels: Nuclear families (monogamy) were developed as a means of passing on private property to heirs.

15. 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.

16. 2. Marxism
Zaretsky The family performs an ideological function, offering the worker a ‘haven’ from the harsh exploitive world of capitalism.

17. A very quick concept test…
A key term will be displayed for five seconds
You need to write down the relevant perspective/s

18. READY

19. FALSE CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS

20. SOCIAL SOLIDARITY

21. HEGEMONY

22. FALSE CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS

23. MERITOCRACY

24. SOCIALISATION

25. COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS

26. SOCIAL ORDER

27. PATRIARCHY

28. PROLETARIAT

29. LEGITIMATION OF INEQUALITY

30. SOCIAL REPRODUCTION

31. CULTURAL DEPRIVATION

32.   SOCIAL ROLE

33. CAPITALISM

34. ALIENATION

35. RESERVE ARMY OF LABOUR

36. RESERVE ARMY OF LABOUR

37. 5 minute paragraph Assess the argument in the first sentence:
Individually write a paragraph evaluating one argument of either po-mo or Marxism:
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 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.

38. 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,

39. 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 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.

40. 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".

41. Bingo!
Functionalism Marxism Feminism Radical feminist Marxist feminist Liberal feminist Murdock Parsons Althusser Engels Ansley Patriarchy Equal pay act Delphy & Leonard Bourgeoisie Proletariat Domestic violence Beechey Socialisation Men Capitalism