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2. What was the 'fitting' family type in the industrial society?

  • Lone parent family
  • Nuclear family
  • Extended Family

3. What are the 4 main functions of the family?

  • Stable satisfaction of sex drive, reproduction of next generation, socialisation of the young, meeting economic needs
  • Stable satisfaction of sex drive, reproduction of next generation, socialisation of the young, financing amenities

4. Who says that the modern nuclear family has 2 irreducible functions?

  • George Murdock
  • Talcott Parsons
  • Karl Marx

5. 2 criticisms of Murdock

  • the 4 functions can be performed equally as well by other institutes and families. Functionalism ignores conflict, disagreement and exploitation
  • The nuclear family can't perform any of the 4 functions according to marxists, other institutions perform these functions

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