Family Theorists
- Created by: Jacob Keyte
- Created on: 30-04-15 19:39
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- Family Theorists
- Ann Oakley- Domestic Division of Labor -1974
- A feminist view of house work and the rise of the house wife role
- Manipulation - Parents encourage or discourage behavior on the basis of appropriatenesof the child's sex
- Strengths -Has empirical evidence - reliable evidence backed up by the British social attitude survey
- Weakness - Research is on a bias sample -- outdated -- not represented
- Where to use them - vs Functionalists
- Talcott Parsons --Instrumental & expressive roles -- FUNCTIONALIST
- Primary Socialization -- Parents teach norms and values
- Stabilization - of Personalities- the idea that he tested the family is a place where we all can act naturally
- Strengths - Carried out his own research-- Validity he tested the family -- Supports Murdoch Theory about Primary Socialization
- Weakness Carried out research on white middle class US families -- Not all families are not all safe havens -- outdated ideas
- Says families are the next generation and putting all the norms and values
- Engels -Marxist- decision making in the household
- Says that men are the breadwinners and oppress women,- he believes that women are glorified prostitutes in the home
- Believes that the family is the key to the next generation of work force
- And the Family Provides a retreat for the work force
- Feminist vs Marxist
- Strengths-- Agrees with parsons that family provides a place of retreat for workplace
- Weaknesses-- Doesn't acknowledge that family can bring people closer
- Ann Oakley- Domestic Division of Labor -1974
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