The family, social structure and social change
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- The family, social structure and social change
- Functionalist theory of the family
- G.P. Murdock
- The nuclear family is universal, it exists in every known society and therefore, must be a social institution which functioned for the good of society
- Functionalism and social change
- Parsons
- The extended family was effective for the needs of pre-industrial society but was no longer practical in terms of what was required by the industrial revolution
- Parsons
- G.P. Murdock
- Marxist theory of the family
- Friedrich Engels
- The monogamous nuclear family only became popular after the industrial revolution because the ruling class encouraged it in order to protect the property and wealth they had accumulated
- Eli Zaretsky
- The modern nuclear family mainly benefits capitalism and the ruling class at the expense of others in society
- Friedrich Engels
- Feminist theories of the family
- Marxist feminism
- Margaret Benston
- The nuclear family, and especially women's nurturing role within it, is important to capitalism because it produces and rears the future workforce at little cost to the capitalist state
- Ansley
- Capitalism has stripped male workers of dignity, power and control at work
- Margaret Benston
- Radical feminism
- Millet and Firestone
- Men and women constitute spate and often conflicting 'sex classes' and it is the interaction between these classes, especially in marriage and the family, that is responsible for gender inequality
- Delphy and Leonard
- Husband exploit their wives despite genuinely loving them
- Millet and Firestone
- Liberal feminism
- Oakley
- Gender inequality in the family is simply a product of discrimination by individuals and those who run institutions and this discrimination is largely based on ignorance, prejudice and a mistaken view of the biogenetic differences between males and females
- Oakley
- Marxist feminism
- Functionalist theory of the family
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