Family - useful studies and sociologists

Defining the family

• Murdoch - universal family
• Edmund Leech - serial packet family
• Willmont + Young - Nuclear Family after industrialistion

Functionalism

• Murdoch - four functions: reproduce, sexual, education, economic
• Parsons - Two funstions: primary socialisation, stabilstation of adult personality

Marxism

• Engels - Nuclear Family for a reson, serves needs of the ruling class, inheritance passed on
• Margret Benson - women are the reserve army of labour, raise the next generation of workers
• Marcuse - media presents family with false needs

Family diveristy

• Ford + Miller - single parent familes: infeior burden on the state
• Brenan - extened, beanpole family in decline
• Smart - reconstitued family diffecult
• Dume - Same sex couples, children from…