Wednesday, 18 November 2009

The Family and Post-Modernism

Post-Modernism; the belief that there is no absolute or total truth that can be known in the world today. Only the truths that we find ourselves to explain the meanings of our own lives.

As a result of this post-modernist sociologists suggest the collapse in ultimate truth and meaning in our lives means that we cannot say that one type of family is better than another because there is no absolute truth anymore. Therefore we are free to choose the lifestyle that we want and this is the only way that we can find meaning in our meaningless lives because society is so fragmented and broken up and claims of what is 'normal' and 'natural' are no longer relevant.
According to a post-modernist sociologist it is difficult to even say what makes up a 'family today.
This is almost like a super-market of life-choices.

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