Functionalism and the Family
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- Created on: 01-02-18 12:26
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- Murdock
- Sexual function = Stable sexual relationships for adults and controls sexual adults of members
- The nuclear family has 4 functions: sexual, reproduction, economical and socialisation
- Studied 250 societies and fond some form of nuclear family which existed in all known societies
- Functionalism and the Family
- Parsons
- The family performs 2 functions
- Primary socialisation = teaching norms and values, this usually happens in the family
- Stabilisation of adult personalities = families are used for comfort and support
- Instrumental role = men, breadwinners
- Expressive role = women, meet emotional needs and primary socialisation
- The family performs 2 functions
- Yung and Wilmott
- Couples are more equal and both have a say in things that happen
- Symmetrical family = similar roles, men do more domestic women go out to paid work. This happened due to social change
- Bott
- Segregated conjugal roles
- Couples have separate roles
- Men = breadwinners
- Women = carers
- Joint conjugal roles
- Tasks are shared between men and women
- Shared domestic and emotional roles
- Roles within the home are symmetrical
- Segregated conjugal roles
- Hochschild (Triple Shift)
- Emotional work
- Housework
- Paid work
- Evaluation
- 'Rose-tinted'
- Murdock ignores conflict
- Gough - studied families in South India and found they had multiple sexual partners
- Nuclear family is not universal and changes depending on culture
- Feminism - family oppresses women
- Ann Oakley - family still unequal, only 15% of households have high level of male participation and 25% in childcare
- Parsons
- Reproduction function = Provides society with new members
- Economical function = Provides resources for family members to support them
- Socialisation function = Teaching of norms and values to keep society going
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