Functionalist View - Family

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  • Created by: e.sarfraz
  • Created on: 26-06-18 21:16

Functionalist

Intro: 

  • Leach - family 'is the source of all our discontent'
  • Larkin - 'They **** you up, your mum and your dad'
  • Family - people related by kinship e.g. blood, marriage/civil partnership or adoption
  • Household - on eperson living alone or group of people living together e.g. students living at uni together
  • Family is building block of society 
  • Murdock - family performs four essential functions
  • Sexual - satisfaction of sex drive
  • Reproductive - reproduce next generation
  • Economic support and provision - food, shelter
  • Socialisation of children - teach society's norms and value
  • Studied 250 families - concluded nuclear family is universal
  • However:
  • Nayar tribe - women more than 1 husband, didn't live together, fathers took no responsibility of children

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