func on fam Flashcards
(8 cards)
What is a family according to Murdock
Nuclear family that has a husband, wife and children
Family has money to share
Should produce children
Heterosexual
Married
SEER definition and AO3
Sexual - Healthy satisfaction of the human sex drive
AO3 - Pornography and prostitution, lone parent familes
Economic - families providing for each other (man works, women more domestic role)
AO3 -Both parents have their own money
Feminists = The family organisation is patriarchal
Single parents could be on benefits/welfare system
Education - Primary socialisation (parents teach children)
AO3 - single parents, hospital, governments can teach
Reproduction - having children for next generation
AO3 - Some might not want children (adoption, foster)
What would a feminist criticise func views
Nuclear family is not the most universal unit but a mother and a child is
What would a marxist criticise func views
Murdock ignores influence of capitalism in reproducing next generation workers
A criticism of func
It’s outdated as it fails to acknowledge changing gender roles and greater diversity of family type for example childless, extended, same sex, single parent, adopted
Parsons household definition
It’s different from a family as it is a group of people with common goals living together without being related, married or committed
What is the functional fit theory?
+ AO2
Family change to fit the needs of society
Family changed between agricultural to industrial revolution.
Family went from making money on their land by themselves so family make money on their land by themselves so family of different generation produce own food
To - factories and work for others so families needed to be smaller for the better of society creating two generations of nuclear family
Parsons - what are the 2 main roles of the family?
Primary socialisation
Stabilisation of adult personalities (SOAP)
