Functionalist View of Family
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- Created on: 30-04-17 20:26
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- Funtionalists
- Murdock
- Stable satisfaction of the sex drive. (same marital partner, prevents social disruption)
- Reproduction of the next generation.
- Socialisation of the young. (norm and values)
- Satisfaction of members economic needs. (food, shelter, unit of production, unit of consumption)
- Family structures are nuclear and the functions are universal.
- Ignores family diversity, other structures.
- Parsons
- Functions of the family depend on the society it is found in.
- Segregated conjugal roles. Instrumental and expressive roles.
- Primary Socialisation. The family has a role of teaching children norms and values of society. This allows them to be ready.
- Stabilisation of Adult Personality. This allows members of the family to relax and release the tension, allowing working members to work stress free.
- It is the non-working members jobs to make it less stressful for the workers and it allows society to go on undisturbed.
- Warm Bath Theory. The family eases and soothes the stress of the family day. It provides relief from the capitalist society. Helps stabilise personality which benefits society.
- Pre-Industrial.
- Needed more people to help the fmily and with children and the elderly.
- Lived in an extended family.
- Divided jobs between the family.
- Modern-Industrial.
- Nulear fmily who are more selfish.
- Its difficult to move everyone around when looking for jobs, so reduction in extended family.
- Nuclear families arise because of moving.
- Family status' is built on achievement, eg job/money.
- Functions of Family
- Maintaining social system
- meets the needs of the subsystems, eg religion, economy
- Criticised as they only see the good of the family
- society is based on value consensus according to functionalists. There is a shared set of norms and values
- Murdock
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