Critical Theories

Question 1

Anti psychiatry

Answer 1

Dark side of family- family dynamics are source of mental illness. before was biology
Evaluation for functionalism, new right, post modernism

Question 2

Laing

Answer 2

Jane felt like tennis ball. Parents communicated through her which led her escaping to dream world (schizophrenia). Mother unconsciously projected anxieties of ageing onto daughter leading to schizo. Lone daughter families

Question 3

Cooper (eval for parsons and new right)

Answer 3

Family terrorises children by destroying their free will, imagination, creativity. Identities imposed on children eg dad make boy go to football, mum make girl go to dance

Question 4

Leech

Answer 4

critical of isolated nuclear family eg sibling rivalry. too intense. toxic relationships causing mental illnesses

Question 5

Foucault (eval for functionalism)

Answer 5

• critical of way family used as method of social control and surveillance.
• know watched= change behaviour
• families subject to surveillance eg social work/doctors .
• through knowledge and bureaucracy hold power to reshape those in society not deemed as operating correctly
• lasch and donzelot- poor families more likely labelled as problem families