critisisms of the family xx

Question 1

what are the five critisms of the family?

Answer 1

dysfunctional
loneliness + isolationism
functionalism
feminist
marxist

Question 2

what’s dysfunctional as a critisms of the family?

Answer 2

• lots of media coverage of “broken” or “troubled” families.
• state devotes lots of money to rescources to those families through Family Intervention Programmes (FMI)
• such families are associated with crime, drugs.
• social workers are concerned about “dark side” of family and domestic violence

Question 3

what’s functionalist as a critisms of the family?

Answer 3

• overall positive about the family
• vogue and bell did recognise how the family can be dysfunctional.
• children are “emotional scale goats” so parents can put there stress into them, they’re a “punching bag”

Question 4

what’s feminist as a critisms of the family?

Answer 4

• positive side of family hides unhappiness experienced by women
• women are dissatisfied with patriarchal side of family
• undermines women status maintains an unfair division of labour

Question 5

what’s marxist as a critisms of the family?

Answer 5

• unable to provide pyschological and social needs of an individuals
• family exists to primarily support capitalism

Question 6

what’s loneliness + isolationism as a critisms of the family?

Answer 6

• can apply to divorced and widows
• elderly extended kin can feel cut off
• the decline in extended family and growth of “privatisation” nuclear family
• isolationism can be prevented by calling or seeing other people