Functionalist perspective of the family
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- Created on: 02-05-13 15:56
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- Functionalist Perspective
- Main Themes
- Family has essential functions it must perform to meet the basic needs of society
- As society develops, functions become more specialised
- Family is a universal institution
- Functional relationship between family and other social institutions
- Nuclear family best suited to industrial society
- Male and females have different functional roles
- Murdock
- Family performs 4 basic fuctions
- Sexual
- Reproductive
- Economic
- Educational
- Study of 250 societys
- Family is universal as its the best way of adjusting to society's needs
- Family performs 4 basic fuctions
- Parsons
- 2 basic and irreducible functions
- Primary socialisation of children
- Stabilisation of adult personalities
- Structural differentiation
- Lost some of its functions to other specialist institutions
- Nuclear family best for industrial society
- Geographical and social mobility
- Status is achieved not ascribed
- Male and female different roles
- Female
- Expressive
- providing care, love & warmth
- Male
- Instrumental
- working, breadwinner role
- Female
- 2 basic and irreducible functions
- Main Themes
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