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Family diversity and society Giddens and late modernity According to the British sociologist Anthony Giddens, we live in an era known late modernity. This era is characterized by choice and change, because there are greater opportunities to choose an identity and select to lifestyle, which are increasingly available. Today people have more freedom to try on different identities and try out different lifestyles. Where does the family fit into the late modernity? Family diversity is a reflection of the opportunities and priorities of late modernity, because people have greater freedom to construct their own domestic arrangements, and they are not bound form existing a family form or a family role, but there are more choices available and more opportunities to experience, create, and change. How does Anthony Giddens see relationship in the late modernity? Form Anthony Giddens point of view relationships in the late modernity are increasingly based on confluent love- deep emotional intimacy in...

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