1. What is Social
The lifecourse Action Theory?
functionalism
Postmodernism modernism
Interpretivism Social Action New Right
Theory
Bottom up Nuclear family There’s no
is best best type of The Lifecourseis:
view
family
Family meets
Top Down
the needs of We make our
View
society own choices –
Lifecourseanalysis allows us to understand
constrained a
family choices Tamara Hareven. 1978
little by
Life course analysisallows society
us to research family from the Assumptions:
bottom up. One example is
Morgan and Holdsworth
2005):
Strengths:
What behaviours show 1
Research method
that you ’re an adult?
2
Another is Judith Stacey:
Family practices : David
Morgan.
Family practices can help us understand Conflict
with being part
are associated
What actions
of a family?