Families & Households - Functionalism
- Created by: Ben Kitto
- Created on: 04-04-13 11:18
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- Families & Households - Functionalism
- George Murdock (1949) - "The family provides 4 functions to society & individual members"
- 1) Sexual - Provides & Controls sexual access
- 2) Reproductive - Provides new society members
- 3) Economic - Provide; food, home and warmth
- 4) Educational - Provides socialisation to pass culture to the next generation
- Talcott Parsons (1959) "The family provides two 'Basic & irreducible functions'
- 1) Primary Socialisation - 'internalising' societies culture & structuralising personality
- 2) Stabilisation of the adult personality - Enables adults to gain emotional stability
- George Murdock (1949) - "The family provides 4 functions to society & individual members"
- 1) Sexual - Provides & Controls sexual access
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