AQA AS SOCIOLOGY UNIT 1 FAMILY - THEORIES OF THE FAMILY EVALUATION

All the evaluation points you need to know about theories of the family. ADVANTAGES MEAN STRENGTHS AND DISADVANTAGES MEAN WEAKNESSES. WHEN DOING EVALUATION (AO2) MAKE SURE IT LINKS BACK TO THE QUESTION BY USING THESE PHRASES...

"Therefore..."

"This suggests that..." 

ALSO, IF YOU DO NOT QUOTE FROM THE ITEM, YOU WILL LOSE OUT ON MARKS

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AQA AS SOCIOLOGY UNIT 1 FAMILY - THEORIES OF THE FAMILY EVALUATION

Advantages

  • FUNCTIONALISM - Friends can provide function groups for single parents.
  • FUNCTIONALISM - Single/Surrogate/homosexual couples can opt in for reproductive technologies such as IVF and Test Tube

Disadvantages

  • FUNCTIONALISM - Parsons' view is sexist. Females go to work.
  • FUNCTIONALISM - Ignores family diversity - little reference to lone parent families, cannot be applied to other families.
  • MARXISM - Emotional support helps people to accept inequalities and capitalism is unjust.
  • NEW RIGHT - Marxists would criticise solutions to give money to the nuclear family.
  • MARXISM - The function of accepting inequalities is lost

Evaluation

NEW RIGHT THEORY - THE CAUSES AND EVIDENCE ARE AO2 BUT MAKE SURE IT IS RELEVANT TO THE QUESTION. IF NOT, DO NOT ADD IT IN THE ESSAY.

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