Theories
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- Created on: 31-05-17 20:22
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- functionalism
- George Peter Murdock
- economic security
- primary socialisation
- sexual regulation
- reproduction
- the nuclear family exists in every society
- Talcott Parsons
- socialisation of children
- stabilisation of adult personalities (SOAP)
- Ronald Fletcher
- regulates sexual behavior
- procreation and child rearing
- caring for its members
- earliest socialisation
- teachers the members their roles in society
- Criticisms
- Kibbutz children are raised in 'children houses'
- family trends show nuclear family is declining
- George Peter Murdock
- Marxism
- the family benefits capitalism
- the inheritance of property
- Freidrich Engels: monogamy oppresses women
- Ideological functions
- justify the capitalist society
- Eli Zaretsky (1976) the family offers a haven from the harsh world
- A unit of consumption
- consume latest trends
- 'pester power'
- Criticisms
- ignores vairety of families
- feminists: focus' on class not gender
- functionalists: ignores the benefits
- feminism
- liberal
- oppression is being overcome, changes in the law etc
- criticised for not challenging underlying causes
- marxist
- reproduce the labour force, absorb anger, reserve army of cheap labour
- Peggy Morton: 'ideologically condition' their children
- radical
- separatism
- Germaine Greer (2000) 'matriarchal households' alternative to hetero sexual family
- critised for failing to recognise progress. Jenny Summervile (2000) heterosexual attraction makes this unlikely
- difference
- can't generalise
- white feminists neglect black women's experiences
- critism for neglecting that many women share the same experiences
- liberal
- functionalism
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