Functionalist view of roles in the family
- Created by: Kate
- Created on: 20-05-14 09:17
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- Functionalism
- explain the roles, relationships and responsbilities in the family as how they are because they are functional ...
- ... both for society and for the individuals within it
- e.g. partners have sexual fulfillment from each other and the emotial attatchment that goes with the family together as a unit
- family
- needs to socialise their children into the culture of their society
- someone needs to work to earn money
- EVALUATION
- present an overly harmonious picture of the family
- that parents care for each other and children conform to norms
- ignore the dysfunctions of families
- negative aspects
- "dark side of the family" - conflict and violence
- negative aspects
- as families change it becomes more difficult to understand family roles and relationships from a functionalist point of view
- does not allow for diversity within families
- feminists are critical
- Untitled
- present an overly harmonious picture of the family
- Roles
- fathers
- best suited to instrumental role
- breadwinner
- mothers
- naturally inclined to an expressive role
- childrearing
- fathers
- Parsons
- adult personalities are stabilised by the family
- "warm bath theory"
- explain the roles, relationships and responsbilities in the family as how they are because they are functional ...
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