Family and Households - overall views on the family
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- Created on: 06-05-18 18:29
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- Family and Households Overall View
- Functionalist view
- Murdock : 4 functions
- Sexual, reproductive, economic and socialisation
- Parsons : 2 functions
- Stabilisation of adult personalities and primary socialisation
- Murdock : 4 functions
- Marxist view
- Family serves capitalism = proletariat sells their labour to bourgeoisie
- Marcuse
- Claimed working class families are encourages to pursue false needs in form of consumer goods
- Zaretsky
- Family serves capitalism by offering emotional shelter and security from harsh world of work
- Feminist view
- Ansley
- Men take out their frustration and stress of work on their wives instead of challenges the capitalist society
- Sees the family as a negative impact on women
- Believe society has socially constructed their roles
- Anne Oakley
- Family is patriarchal
- Ansley
- New right view
- Sees the nuclear family as natural
- argue that the decline of the traditional family and growth of family diversity are the cause of many social problems such as higher crime rates
- Sees the nuclear family as natural
- Functionalist view
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