Question

The interactionist perspective views families as changing with the times. For example, 50 years ago Women were expected to stay home with the children and support their husband's careers. Gay couples could not adopt and were not seen to be fit parents. Single mothers were shamed and could never expect to have a child on her own. Do you see how the definition of family has changed over time? Is one type of family better than another?

Answer 1

The interaction perspective is based on the premise that the synergistic interaction and influence of society and humans Shape one another and give birth to way of life.

The construct of family was earlier dogmatic, but with the changing times and with Globalization and the perspective of cultures being subjected to other cultures and a mass involvement and understanding there has been a shift in the construct of family, which has become more benevolent and humane as well as open in its approach.

This has led people to break through the confines of the earlier familial picture to a wider more open one.