Family Topic One: Perspectives
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- Family Topic One: Perspectives
- Functionalist Persepective
- Function for the greater good for society
- Constructs and maintains a effective economy
- Maintains Social order
- Provides emotional wellbeing
- Security, identity and support
- Shapes responsible and well-behaved members of society
- Murdock
- Nuclear family is universal
- Reproductive:produces new society members
- Sexual: regulates sexual behavior and sex in marriage creates social order
- Educational: Primary socialization teaching norms and values
- Economic: Creates productive workers who want to provide for their family
- Ethnocentric
- Doesn't account for modern changes or trends
- Parsons
- Pre-Industrial society were small, farming communities
- Pre-Industrial societies relied on Extended Family unit
- Extended family performed 3 main functions
- Supply food, clothing and shelter
- Teach basic skills need to take place in family unit
- Maintain health and welfare
- Extended family is longer effective due to 5 changes to the family
- Family needs to be Geographically Mobile
- Structural Differentiation
- More focus on producing and rearing next generation
- Family can now be Socially Mobile so became achievement orientated
- Provide stability of adult personalities
- Young and Willmott
- Critics Parsons, Extended families do still exist
- Symmetrical Family is now the Universal Norm
- Symmetrical Family has 6 features
- Privatized unit
- Nuclear Family structure
- Dual Career Unit
- Egalitarian with joint conjugal roles
- Home-Centered with most leisure time spend at home
- Family-Centered
- Fail to account global Migration
- Ignores Harmful effects of the nuclear family
- Marxist perspective
- Nuclear Family serves the needs of capitalism and ruling class ideology
- Engles
- Monogamous Nuclear family only became popular because the ruling class encouraged it
- Nuclear family protected wealth and property of the ruling class
- Ensured children inherited wealth
- Zaretsky
- Nuclear family agent of socialisation into capitalist ideology
- Helps to manage resentment of the workplace
- Major unit of consumption which provides profit for capitalism
- Ignores W/C socialisation of resisting capitalist ideology
- Focuses too much on Capitalism
- Feminist Perspective
- Marxist Feminist
- Gender roles are created by capitalism
- Nuclear family benefits the ruling class
- Ignores Day-to-Day experiences of women
- Based on a dated model of the Nuclear family
- Radical Feminist
- Patriarchy benefits all men
- Conflicting 'Sex Classes' is the reason for inequality
- Gender is the main inequality in society
- Women-Centred approach
- Ignores other family types
- Pessimistic about change
- Critised for 'Man Hating'
- Liberal Feminism
- 'Equal Rights' Feminism
- Gender inequality is a product of discrimination by those who run institutions
- Inequality is not embedded in the social structure of society
- Gender role socialisation has a ideological consequence of girls being persuaded to accept their main responsibilities is family bound
- Socialisation of girl prevent girls from wanting to compete with men
- Acknowledge the social changes which have come about because of economic, social and legal reasons
- Economic
- Rise of service sector meant that many of the new jobs were taken up by women = Economic power
- Genderquake changed attitudes and aspirations which go beyond family life and responsibility
- Legal
- Legal changes have lead to increases opportunities & rights for women (Social Policy)
- Economic
- Difference Feminism
- Argues that all 3 strands of feminism fails to understand that women are not one common group
- Analyses the effect of new family types (E.g. same sex)
- Highlights the difference in race, ethnicity, class, age & nationality
- Marxist Feminist
- Functionalist Persepective
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