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21 Cards in this Set
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Theory Functionalism What does Parsons think about the family? |
The family is hugely important and it does the following jobs Socialization- the teaching of norms and values from parents to children.
Stabilization of adult personalities- Adults being allowed to be more child like and children understanding the rules of society. |
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Theory Functionalism What does Murdock think about the family? |
The family is hugely important and it does the following jobs Socialization- the teaching of norms and values from parents to children. Reproduction- Making babies in a safe environment Sex- Should only happen inside marrige Economic- Parents paying for stuff for us
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Theory Functionalism What does Fletcher think about the family? |
Warm Bath theory- After a long day the family care for you and look after you Welfare state- Allows the family to do its job better |
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Theory Functionalism What does a Functionalist believe? |
Functionalists believe society is based on a set of shared norms and values. Functionalists see the family as very important. |
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Theory Marxism What does Marx think about the family? |
Years ago, everyone shared the means of production communally so everyone was equal. Now we have ownership of private property so there becomes a division in classes. |
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Theory Marxism What does Marx think about the family? |
There are ideological functions within the family as they socialise children into the idea that there will always be hierarchy and inequality which reinforces capitalism. |
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Theory Marxism What does Zaretsky think about the family? |
Women are 'Takers of ****' women are oppressed in a capitalist society. |
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Theory Feminism What do Liberal Feminists think about the family? |
Equality not change of the system. Similar view to 'march of progress' thinkers Willmott and Young. Gradual progress of gender equality in the family but no full success yet. |
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Theory Feminism What do Marxist Feminists think about the family? |
Women reproduce the labour force through their unpaid domestic labour, by socialising the next generation of workers and maintaining and servicing the current one. |
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Theory Feminism What do Marxist Feminists think about the family? |
Women absorb anger that would otherwise be directed at capitalism. They soak up the anger their husbands feel. This can explain male domestic violence against women. |
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Theory Feminism What do Marxist Feminists think about the family? |
Women are a 'reserve army' of cheap labour that can be taken on when extra workers are needed and can just be let go when no longer needed. |
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Theory Feminism What do Radical Feminists think about the family? |
Men are the enemy and the source of women's oppression and exploitation. |
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Theory Feminism What do Radical Feminists think about the family? |
Men benefit from women's unpaid domestic labour and from their sexual services. Women do not benefit from men. |
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Theory Feminism What do Difference Feminists think about the family? |
We cannot generalise women's experiences. Different women go through different things e.g black women go through race discrimination as well as gender. |
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Theory The New Right What do they think about the family? |
Very anti-feminist approach. The nuclear family is the only correct or normal family type. They see the family as 'natural' based upon biological differences between men and women. |
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Theory The New Right What does Murray think about the family? |
Believes other types of family such as lone parent families are what have lead us to a 'broken Britain'. They do not conform to the traditional family values that the nuclear family provides as they depend on an over-generous welfare state. |
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Theory Postmodernism What do they think about the family? |
The family is a structure that shapes the behaviour of its members so that they perform the functions society requires. |
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Theory Postmodernism The life course
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Hareven (1978) there is flexibility and variation in peoples family lives in the choices and decisions they make, and in the timing and sequence of events and turning points in their lives. |
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Theory Postmodernism What does Stacey think about the family? |
Greater choice has benefitted women and enabled them to escape from patriarchal oppression and to shape their family arrangements to meet their needs. |
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Theory Postmodernism What does Beck think about the family? |
We now live in a 'risk society' where tradition has less influence and people have more choice. Due to this we are more aware of the risks in society. |
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Theory Postmodernism What does Giddens think about the family? |
In recent decades the family and marriage have been transformed by greater choice and a more equal relationship between men and women due to: Contraception Women's Independence |
