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15 Cards in this Set
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The family as a unit of consumption |
Advertisers urge families to consume all te latest products and keep up with the jonses Media targets childrn who use pester power Children must have latest gadgets and clothe sto avoid mocking by peers |
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Engels |
Monogamous nuclear family: Developed to pass on lrivat property Provided proof of paternity So can be passed on to right people |
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Alhusser |
Ideological function of family: For capitalism to survive working class must submit to ruling lxass bourgeoise. The family is a social control mechanism that passes on the ideology of the ruling class. This is called ideoogical state apperatus. This means the family is a microcosm of society |
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Zaretsky |
Ideologic role of the family helping to prop up capitalism-family is an escape from oppression and exploitation at work, a place to have some control so people wont complain ir oppose the capitalist systmem |
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Criticism |
Ignores the dark side of the family whixh does not allow an escape |
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Radical psychiatry: Leach |
The nuclear family has become isolated from kin adn wider community, an inqard looking institution leading to emotional stress frome xpecting to much from each other qhixh generates conflict |
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Radical psychiatry: Laing + cooper |
Destructive and exploitive family- smothers development of individuality, leads to unquestioning obedience to authority in later life, contribtes to mental illnesses such as schizophrenia |
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Foucalt |
Concept of surveillance where the state keeps an eye on you theough media and education system. Believes process becomes internalised and people accept norms and behaviour as their own. They excerisise self surveilance and police thier own behaviour so other institutions dont have to. |
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How do functionalists see self surveillance |
See as desirable as it ensures social stability |
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How do marxists view |
Repressive and promoting sumbission and conformity in an umequal society |
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Henderson |
Informal surveillanxe by mothers: observe rrticise and judge other mothers and suffer fuilt if they dont live up to expectations |
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Criticism of marxist view |
Family diversity: assume nuclear is fominant and ignores the wide and increasing variety of family structures such as single parent and same sex families |
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Functionalist criticisms |
Marxists too deterministic as the benefits of family are ignored such as intimacy and mutual support |
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Feminis criticism |
Emphasis on social class and capitalism underestimates importance of gender inequalities in familiy which serves thr interests of men rather than capitalism |
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Criticism of engels: |
Old fashioned, peope dont marry and have children to pass on property . 2003 report form Institute of Education says people marry for love and affection |
