Functionalist
- Created by: alicegrieve
- Created on: 25-02-18 14:14
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- FUNCTIONALIST
- Family a vital organ in maintaining body of society
- MURDOCK - 4 functions
- Sexual - solidify a relationship
- Reproductive - nurturing relationship
- Socialisation/education - pass on norms & values
- Economic - family provides food & shelter
- PARSONS - 2 functions
- Primary socialsation - children learn & accept norms & values
- Stabilises personality's - support & security
- Instrumental role = males provide financial support
- Expressive role = females provide emotional support
- PRIVATISED NUCLEAR FAMILY
- GEOGRAPHICAL MOBILITY
- people commute to work - nuclear family better
- SOCIAL MOBILITY
- people can move up/down social scale compared to family they were born into - extended family will be in different jobs, education, lifestyle etc. weak relations
- GROWTH IN INCOME
- people are better off today - less dependence on kin for support in distress
- GROWTH IN MERITOCRACY
- contemporary society requires more skills & education & are more meritocratic - what you know not who you know - extended family less to offer - reduces reliance
- ECONOMIC & STATUS DIFFERENCES
- different occupations, incomes, lifestyles of extended family who live together - source of conflict & instability
- GEOGRAPHICAL MOBILITY
- THE KIBBUTZ
- professional parent
- role of natural parent limited - short periods each day
- move through a series of homes, with others of same age until adulthood
- one of the most important attempts to find an alternative to conventional family structures
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