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Emile Durkheim




FUNCTIONALISM

Members of society need to feel a sense of social solidarity (a feeling of belonging to a larger community and a shared identity). Concerned that in large modern societies, people will lose their sense of belonging and become anonymous individuals.

Talcott Parsons




FUNCTIONALISM

The important role or socialisation in creating value consensus in society.

Charles Murray




NEW RIGHT

Providing the poor with benefits created a dependency culture. This had led to the creation of the underclass. Consisting of lone parent families, people who depended on benefits etc...

Karl Marx




MARXISM

All societies are based on class divisions between people who do benefit from the economic system and people who do not. Ruling class of capitalists [Bourgeoisie] and a working class [Proleteriat]. Proleteriat's have to work for the Bourgeoisie as they cannot afford their own land.

Ann Oakley




FEMINISM

People in the wider society encourage the 'normal' idea of a woman being a housewife making it difficult for women who wanted careers.

Young and Willmott



A new type of family (Symmetrical family0 had spead to all social classes. Based on nuclear family

Beck and Beck-Gernsheim




POST MODERNISM

We are undergoing a process of individualisation, where indiviuals chose their own lifestyles and identities rather than following the norms

Giddens




POST MODERNISM

Individuals reflect on their personal lives and constantly question if they are getting the best out of their life. Create their own life scripts

Engels




MARXISM

Families shape their economic system. Women's roles was to provide heirs for wealthy bourgeoisie.

Zaretsky




MARXISM

Family life was seen as an important refuge from the pressure of work, but the family is alienated by capitalism.


Family provides unpaid domestic labour and is a unit of consumption . Represent a form of patriarchal control, roles restricted in a domestic sphere. Men rather than capitalism exploit women

Murdock




FUNCTIONALISM

Universal nuclear family provides four functions for society

Parsons




FUNCTIONALISM

In industrial societies the nuclear family has 2 functions:


1. Socialisation of children


2. Stabilisation of adult personalities

Popenoe




NEO-FUNCTIONALISM

There are biological necessities in the functions of the families, there's a new cultural script for families but some are less functional than others.

Delphy and Leonard




RADICAL FEMINISTS

Traditional forms of family are favoured by fuctiontionalists and new right