Functionalism
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- Created on: 07-05-17 12:30
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- Functionalism
- Intro
- Based on shared values and beliefs
- Society is based on value consensus
- Emilie Durkiem
- Believe in the organic analogy
- Society is made of up individual parts
- Based on shared values and beliefs
- Murdock- 4 essential functions
- Stable Satisfaction of the Sex Drive
- Married adults have a healthy sex drive that avoids social affairs and keeps the nuclear family together
- Reproduction
- Reproduced the next generation
- Education
- Socialises children into the norms and values of society
- Economic
- Provides food, shelter and clothing
- Stable Satisfaction of the Sex Drive
- Parsons
- 2 irreducible functions
- Socialisation of adult personality
- Family relieves stresses of modern day living.
- The Warm Bath Theory. Adults can relax and be themselves
- Primary Socialisation
- Socialises citizens into the norms and values and patterns of behaviour
- On the family can do this because of the warms and security
- Socialisation of adult personality
- Functional Fit Theory
- Geographical Mobility
- The labour force needs families to be geographical mobile
- Geographical Mobility
- 2 irreducible functions
- Criticism
- It has an optimism view of the family- rose glass tinted
- They ignore the conflict that takes place within the family
- They only favour the Nuclear Family, don't accept family diversity
- Its outdated with the instrumental and expressive roles
- It has an optimism view of the family- rose glass tinted
- Intro
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