Family Theorists 2
- Created by: Jacob Keyte
- Created on: 04-05-15 14:09
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- Family Theorists 2
- Althusser & Poulantza-- MARXISTS -- ROLE OF THE FAMILY
- Supporting the State Apparatus
- Suggests that men & women have different roles to fulfill
- VS FEMINISTS
- SUPPORTS FUNCTIONALIST
- Strengths -- Supports Functionalist
- Weakness-- Ignore the fact that such a family supports patriarchy
- Kate Millett 1970 -- RADICAL FEMINIST
- Family is characterized by patriarchy
- They argue that family is the root of all women oppression and should be abolished
- VS FUNCTIONALIST AND VS MARXISTS
- Weakness -- Outdated -- Fails to see recent trends -- ignore the benefits of the family
- BArrettt & McIntosh -FEMINISTS
- Believes ts an ideological apparatus and all other families are inferior
- VS MARXIST AND VS FUNCTIONALISTS
- Supports New Right -- Views that diverse families are wrong
- Weakness -- There is now less nuclear families so research is outdated -- dose't see see how lone parents can be beneficial
- Althusser & Poulantza-- MARXISTS -- ROLE OF THE FAMILY
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