Functionalist View - Family
- Created by: e.sarfraz
- Created on: 26-06-18 21:16
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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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