Topic 3: Functions of the family (notes)
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- Functions of the family
- Functionalists
- MURDOCK
- Families perform 4 needs
- Socialisation of the young
- Reproduction of the next generation
- Meeting it's members economic needs
- Stable satisfaction of the sex drive
- Criticisms
- Feminists
- Serving the needs of men and oppressing women
- Marxists
- Meets the needs of capitalism, not society as a whole
- Feminists
- Families perform 4 needs
- PARSONS
- Nuclear family
- Extended family
- Two types of society
- Modern industrial
- Pre-industrial
- Geographically mobile workforce
- Traditionally pre-industrial
- Most people lived and worked in the same village
- Socially mobile workforce
- Modern industrial
- Evolving technology
- Loss of functions
- Nuclear family performs two essential funtions
- Primary socialisation
- Equip them with basic skills to integrate them into society
- Stabilisation of adult personalities
- Family = a place to relax outside the workplace
- Primary socialisation
- Nuclear family performs two essential funtions
- MURDOCK
- Marxists
- Capitalist class - meet the means of production
- Working class - whose labor the capitalists exploit for profit
- Ideological functions
- Unit of consuption
- Advertisers urge families to 'keep up with the Jonses' by consuming the latest products
- Media target children
- Children who lack the latest things are mocked and stigmatised
- Criticisms
- They assume that the nuclear family is dominant
- Feminists - Underestimates the importance of gender inequality
- Functionalists - Ignore the benefits the family provide
- Feminist
- Liberal
- Women's oppression is gradually being overcome
- Laws against sex descrimination
- Moving towards greater inequality
- Women's oppression is gradually being overcome
- Marxists
- Women reproduce the labor force
- Unpaid domestic work
- Women absorb anger
- ANSLEY
- 'Women are takers of ****
- ANSLEY
- Women are the 'reserve army' for cheap labor
- Women in the family is linked to the exploitation of the working class
- Women reproduce the labor force
- Radical
- Men are the enemy
- Family and marriage are the key institutions in patriarchal society
- Difference
- Cannot generalise
- Criricisms
- They assume that the nuclear family is dominant
- They are all structural theories
- Liberal
- Functionalists
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