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New Right View → what (x3) & criticisms (x2)?
Nuc Fam. best option for socialising children.
Increase in cohabitation, divorce, same-sex rels and step-families → increase in crimes and anti-social behaviour
Nuclear fam decline → women's sexual liberation
Criticisms: roles not biologically fixed. Nuclear family is a patriarchal institution.
Nuclear family is best. Anything else is bad.
Postmodernism - who (x2) & what (x4)?
Giddens, 1992 → families have no set role → follow couple's wishes. More choice in family.
Beck, 1992 → risk society. More choice = more aware of risks
Both 1992. Risk & choice.
Feminist View → who (x3) and what (x7)
Society is patriarchal.
Liberal → improvements being made (Sex discrim. Act, 1975). Jenny Somerville, 2000 → disagrees with separatism.
Radical → Germaine Greer, 2000 → men are enemies, must be kept separate from women (separatism)
Marxist → women oppressed by capitalism. Housework socialises children into labour. Want a societal revolution.
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JS + GG, 2000. LRM.
Functionalist View - who (x2), what (x4), criticisms (x5)
Murdock, 1949 → nuclear family → reproduction, socialisation, srable satisfaction of sex drive, economic
Parsons, 1955 → functional fit theory (functions affect family shape). Industrial society = nuclear. Pre-industrial society = extended. Stabilisation of adult personalities, socialisation
Criticisms: marxists → nuc. fam. maintains capitalism. Feminists → nuc. fam maintains patriarchy. Is it true extended were most important pre ind.?
M, 1949. P, 1955.
Marxist View → who (x2), what (x3), criticisms (x3)
Engels, 1978 → "housework is glorified prostitution", women are "mere instruments for production of children"
Zaretsky, 1976 → family being a 'haven' is false. Cannot meet each individual's needs.
Family → unit of consumption → media targets kids to generate large profits.
Criticisms: ignore other types of family. Feminists → ignore gender inequality. Functionalists → ignore benefits of family.
E, 1978; Z, 1976, UOC
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