SOCI 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Late Modernity, Anthony Giddens, Parenting Styles
Week 13- future of families
Final exam
• Chapter 5-11
• 60 m/c
• 10 T/F
• 5 definitions from 11 concepts
o 2-3 sentences
• 1 mandatory short answer
• 2 short answers from any 5
o post modernism
o future of families
the post-modern family
• if you were given 3 wishes by a genie regarding future families, what would be your
wishes for future families?
o More daycare
o More paid leave
o No pay gap
o Easier divorce
Modernism and the family
• The modern period started with the industrial revolution
• Urbanization, class stratification, ideology, growth of the nation state and bureaucracy
• Post modernists reject all structural theories and grand narratives
• Resist the idea of using grand circumstances of explaining families
o Not using industrialization to explain families
What is postmodernism
• Globalisation
o Wall are now more permeable
o Breaking down traditional structures
• Economic changes
o SNAF
o Diffusion of family forms
o Middle class families are now more diverse like single parent families
• Relativism
o No one way of looking at families
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