Habermas' Paradigms

I see we meet again Habermas! Your Paradigms seem to follow me throughout the years at RDC! However this time I have learned new things about you!


1st perspective
Empirical-Analytic- This theory has stayed mostly the same as I knew it last year. It is the scientific way of viewing things using scientific methods.


2nd perspective
Critical Theoretic- This theory has changed a bit from the first time I learnt it. Before I thought it was mostly about conflict, and its place in society. Now I have learned it is mostly a conspiracy theorist perspective. That the surface of things is an illusion, and that the hidden reality is unjust.


3rd perspective
Situational Interpretive- This theory has also stayed the same. It views the world, and issues through feelings, and lived experiences. It neglects the scientific study of some things that can only be explained through feelings.

I tend to base my opinions off of my feelings and lived experiences. However if I am proven wrong by scientific study, or facts, I will often accept these views. If it is something that I am very passionate about such as family, I will definitely follow my heart.

What makes a good family?

I liked the first discussion asking what do we think a good family consists of?
Is a family only considered a family if it consists of a husband, wife and a child?
What about two males and a child? Or two females and a child? are these not families?


I never thought about the different classifications of the family until this discussion. Also that a family could also be a group of people not blood related in the slightest. Such as a community, or a tribe supporting children. I would even go as far as to classify rescued animals and their zoo keeps as a family. 


When it is so hard to classify what you can even consider a family, it must be even harder to study those implicated as being "families".


My family consists of a husband/wife, my sister and I. Which has became much less the norm in the 20th century. It used to be the law that a wife is stuck with her husband no matter what. Now North American society is just as quick to drop their spouse, as they are to change socks. I am curious if divorced families have negative effects on the children in those families, and what about single parent families?

Written from Disneyland :D