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MURDOCK (1949) - Four essential functions

>Provides a stable satisfaction of adult sex drive


>Reproduces the next generation


>Socialisation of the young


>Meets it's members' economic needs

PARSONS (1955) - Functional Fit

>The function a family needs to perform will affect it's structure


>A pre-industrial society requires the extended family


>An industrial society requires the nuclear family


PARSONS (1955) - Irreducible Functions

>Primary Socialisation of children


>Stabilisation of adult personalities

MURRAY (1984) - Welfare, dependency & dysfunction

>Welfare creates a dependency culture which leads to indifference to unemployment


>Fatherlessness will create unsocialised children

ENGELS (1884) - Inheritance of property

>Private property means monogamy is essential


>The nuclear family brought female sexuality under male control


>This can only be solved by overthrowing capitalism and replacing it with communism

MARCUSE (1964) - Unit of Consumption

>Capitalism exploits workers by not paying them enough


>The family buys products from the bourgeoisie for more than they are worth

ANSLEY (1972) - "Takers of ****"

>Wives soak up the exploitation their husbands suffer at work, in the form of abuse

ZARETSKY - Female explotation

>Women reproduce the labour force


>Women are used as a reserve army of cheap labour

GREER (2000) - Matrilocal Households

>The creation of all female households as an alternative to the nuclear family

SOMERVILLE (2000) - Progress

>Women now have better job opportunities and control over fertility