Functionalist View on Family (Evaluation)
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- Created on: 29-01-19 17:11
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- Functionalist view on the family
- Murdock
- Reproduction - teach norms and values to next generation
- Socialisation - key for children as could leave to deviants
- Stable sanctification of sex drive - monogamous heterosexual relationships prevented jealousy
- Economical needs - males bring home the money that females use
- Parsons - Functional Fit
- As society changes, so does the type of family that ‘fits’ society, and the functions it performs.
- Pre-industrial = extended now is nuclear as easy to relocate and less time
- Is the nuclear under threat? NO
- Its traditional just lives alongside more diverse forms
- Chester said neo-conventional families and diversity is exaggerated
- Gay couples seek civil partnerships and children (nuclear?)
- While divorce rates are high so are re-marriage rates so people still want it
- Functions that are in decline
- Idea that family is unit of production
- Reproduction being cause for marriage - lots have kids outside of marriage now
- Child responsibility is less - playgroups etc.
- Education for children is now schools jobs not parents
- Murdock
- EVALUATION
- The purpose of the family
- Supported by Parson and Murdock
- Marxists would argue for 'brotherhood'
- Zaretsky - forms ideological function 'haven'
- Forms gender inequalities as men relieve frustrations
- Too Harmonious
- Ignore the darkside of family EG improvement in childhood
- Mause says history of childhood was nightmare but now we're awaken
- Evidence of elder abuse 4% rise. The family is negative and supresses kids personalities for work
- Ignore the darkside of family EG improvement in childhood
- Traditional Family
- Murdock supports - biological and universal
- Edholm found cross cultural examples not to be universally nuclear
- Chester - Said diverse types (single parents) extensions and reductions of traditional view despite biological traits still being there
- Conjugal Roles
- For smooth running - Parsons says 'natural'
- Oakley would say supressive and segregated
- WIllmott and Young - women still naturally take on expressive roles
- Doesn''t account for Wilkinson's Genderquake
- The purpose of the family
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