Family and Theory
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- Created on: 24-10-19 20:58
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- Family & Theory
- Functionalism
- Consensus
- key institution in society
- primary socialisation
- Murdock's function of the family
- Sexual-stable satisfaction of sex drive with the same partner
- Reproductive-reproduction of the next generation
- Economic-food and shelter
- socialisation-socialisation of the young into society's shared norms and values
- the family is a universal institution
- Talcott Parsons(Functions fit)
- the family fits the structure and economy at the time
- e.g society has let go of extended family and more nuclear
- the nuclear family has allowed families to be geographically mobile leading to a geographically workforce
- Loss of functions
- modern families have lost some of the functions but still perform 2 basic functions
- primary socialisation of children
- stabilisation of adult personalities
- modern families have lost some of the functions but still perform 2 basic functions
- Expressive v Instrumental Roles
- woman take the expressive role
- comforting, cook clean, take care of the children
- men take the instrumental role
- take control, more firm, assert dominance, gender role socialisation, 'breadwinner'
- woman take the expressive role
- Analogy-Warm Bath Theory
- Evaluation
- Murdock's functions only apply to a nuclear family, and there's more diversity in today's society
- this view is too positive and ignores not all families are based on consensus e.g domestic violence
- feminists would say this theory ignores the patriarchal side of the nuclear family
- Consensus
- Marxism
- conflict
- upper class and lower class families
- serves to help support the dominant position of the bourgeoisie
- Fred Engles
- private property is a key factor in capitalism- men had all power and in marriage property was owned by the husband
- key concern was property was passed directly to legitimate heirs
- in order to inherit there is an emphasis on monogamy
- Zaretsky(1976)
- maintenance of exploitation of proletariats in 3 ways
- one place they have control is the family= male is the king of the castle where he can relieve his stress from work
- women's role is to support, provide a clean home, healthy food- provides the Bs with a productive efficient work force
- the family are a unit of buyer of consumer goods-makes profit for the Bs
- maintenance of exploitation of proletariats in 3 ways
- Evaluation
- functionalists say it ignores positive benefits of the family
- Lib. feminists would say the position of women is changing
- do not take into account family diversity
- conflict
- New Right
- Political perspective
- nuclear family= ideal family
- roles in the family are biologically determined
- consequences of the decline in the nuclear family is people are becoming less educated, more crime
- Feminism
- family is a patriarchal institution where women are oppressed
- gender role socialisation occurs during socialisation
- McRobbie- Bedroom Culture
- unequal division of domestic labour
- LIBERAL FEMINISTS
- campaign against sex discrimination and equal rights
- argue that women's positions/oppression is slowly being overcome
- moving towards greater equality
- Young and Willmott-March of Progress
- MARXIST FEMINISTS
- women reproduce labour force through unpaid domestic labour
- women absorb anger-Ansley-"takers of s***"
- women are a reserve army of cheap labour
- RADICAL FEMINISTS
- key division between men and women
- men are the enemy and source of exploitation
- only way to solve patriarchy e.g benefits from sexual services and free labour= SEPARATISM
- Or even POLITICAL LESBIANISM
- Evaluation
- Post modernism
- not one single type of family which is the right type
- Judith Stacey
- no one dominant type of family
- family is diverse and fluid
- Anthony Giddens
- family and marriage have been transformed by greater choice
- because of contracepion, women becoming more independent, couples free to define their relationships
- Ulrich Beck
- living in a 'risk society'-tradition has less influence and people have more choice
- Negotiated family
- Personal Life
- do not believe in the family being related through blood and marriage but more
- their definition of the family
- family type relationships with friends
- fictive kin
- relationships with pets
- relationships with dead relatives
- Nordqvist and Smart(2014)
- Functionalism
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