Sociological Perspectives of the Family
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- Sociological Perspectives of the family
- Functionalism
- Murdock (1949)
- Sexual
- expressing sexuality in a socially approved context
- Reproduction
- provides stability for the reproduction of children
- Socialisation
- Primary socialization- where children learn values
- Economic
- family provides food and shelter
- Sexual
- Before Industrialisation
- Extended families
- More communal
- Lived off the land
- After Industrialisation
- Nuclear Families
- Geographical Mobility
- Gender Roles
- Parsons (1950s)
- The family is a warm bath to escape the pressures of society
- Primary socialization
- Stabilisation of human personalities
- Expressive roles
- Instrumental Roles
- Young and Willmott (1973)
- Family is equal and democratic
- Joint conjugal roles
- Found, symmetrical was more common among young families
- Murdock (1949)
- Marxism
- Inheritance of property
- who owns and controls the productive forces
- Ideological functions
- a set of ideas that justify inequality
- Unit of Consumption
- the family is an important market for consumer goods
- Children use "pester power"
- Children are mocked for not having the latest clothes
- Engels
- Primitive society- no private property
- Promiscuous horde
- Development of private property
- Patriarchal monogamous nuclear family
- inheritance of wealth
- Althusser (1971)
- Controlled by ruling class
- Primary Socialization
- Zaretsky (1976)
- "Haven from harsh exploitive world of capitalism"
- escape from the workplace
- Inheritance of property
- Feminism
- Liberal Femenist
- Women do housework, has an affect on power, career and health
- equality of opportunity
- Sex discrimination act (1975)
- Equal pay act (1963)
- Radical Feminism
- Relationships are patriarchal and exploitive- Greer
- Men exercise their control- abuse
- Political lesbianism
- Marxist Femenist
- Women reproduce the labour force
- Renewing labour power
- Women are a "reserve army" of cheap labour
- Social control of the working class
- Oakley
- Housework is unrewarding
- men gain the most from it
- Liberal Femenist
- Post 1960s
- Free to choose lifestyle
- Families are more diverse
- Relationships are less stable
- Ulrich Beck (1992)
- Negotiated Family
- don't conform to traditional family norms
- Enter relationship on an equal basis
- free to leave
- Individualization thesis
- free from traditional roles
- free to be individuals
- Risk Society
- Tradition is less important
- More aware of risks
- Negotiated Family
- Diversity and Fragmentation
- More cultures and lifestyles
- Stacey
- women are free from patriarchal oppression
- Functionalism
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