Functions of the family
- Created by: Joseph Timoney-Smith
- Created on: 16-04-14 16:49
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- Functions of the family
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- Parsons "functional fit" theory
- The functions he family will perform will depend on the society it is within
- The extended family fits the pre-industrial age as their is more people to work
- The nuclear family fits the modern society
- Murdock
- The family has 4 essential functions to meet the needs of the society
- REMEBER: My Rabbit Sleeps Soundly
- Meeting its members economic needs
- Reproduction of the next generation
- Satisfaction of the sex drive
- Socialisation of the young
- Feminists see that the family serves the needs of men and the oppression of women (what a shock!)
- Marxists believe it meets the needs of capitalism and not the people in the society
- REMEBER: My Rabbit Sleeps Soundly
- The family has 4 essential functions to meet the needs of the society
- Parsons "functional fit" theory
- Marxists
- Society is based on an equal conflict between two social class
- The middle and upper dictate and manage whilst the working struggle and labour
- The struggling of the working-class is necessary for the whole society to improve
- The middle and upper dictate and manage whilst the working struggle and labour
- Society is based on an equal conflict between two social class
- Feminists
- Liberal feminists
- Women's oppression is being gradually overcome through changing people's attitudes and through changes in the law
- Society is moving towards greater equality, but that full equality will depend on further reforms and changes in the attitudes and socialisation patterns of both sexes
- Hold the "march to progress" view
- Marxist feminists
- Women reproduce the labour force, they socialise the next generation
- Women abosrb anger that would otherwise be directed at capitalism
- Women are a reserve army of cheap labour
- Radical feminism
- Men are the enemy, they are the sourrce of women's oppression
- Men dominate through, violence, sex and money
- The modern family has to be abolished - women need to live separate to men
- Men are the enemy, they are the sourrce of women's oppression
- Liberal feminists
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