Functionalist View of the Family
- Created by: Toni Lowe
- Created on: 08-05-13 18:30
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- Functionalist View of the Family
- Agree with nuclear family
- Best type of family
- Evaluation
- Disadvantages
- Focuses on the positives of the family rather than the negatives
- Children seen as passive recipients of socialisation, but they can teach parents as well
- Advantages
- Supported by the New Right - support the Nuclear Family
- Disadvantages
- The family performs vital roles
- PARSONS
- Primary socialisation
- Structuring of personalities
- Internalisation of society's culture
- Stabilisation of adult personalities
- Pre industrial
- Benefits the extended family
- Industrial
- Benefits the nuclear family
- Children can move away and have a higher status than parents with conflict
- Benefits the nuclear family
- Primary socialisation
- MURDOCK
- Reproductive
- Economic
- Socialisation
- Sexual
- PARSONS
- Leach
- Sees nuclear family as a unit of discontent
- Family often isolated from extended family and so lacks the practical and psychological support that they would otherwise receive
- Results in conflict. (E.g. children rebel, parents argue etc)
- Effects society - families huddle together and create barriers, becoming suspicious of the outside world
- Laing
- Individuals form alliances and "play one off "against each other
- NEXUS - concerned about what others think, feel, do - mutual concern and attention
- Reciprocal internalisation - become part of one another and family as a whole
- Problems in the family cause problems in society
- See society as threatening
- Agree with nuclear family
- The family performs vital roles
- PARSONS
- Primary socialisation
- Structuring of personalities
- Internalisation of society's culture
- Stabilisation of adult personalities
- Pre industrial
- Benefits the extended family
- Industrial
- Benefits the nuclear family
- Children can move away and have a higher status than parents with conflict
- Benefits the nuclear family
- Primary socialisation
- MURDOCK
- Reproductive
- Economic
- Socialisation
- Sexual
- PARSONS
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