Perspectives On The Family

Question 1

The personal life perspective on the family’s key thinker is

Answer 1

Carol Smart

Question 2

What’s the underlying theory presented by the personal life perspective?

Answer 2

That deconstructing the family in terms of functions in relation to the system it finds itself in, is not enough.
Structuralist approaches assume a lack of individual agency or personal interpretation.
Decisions are made in a social context.

Question 3

Blood ties beyond marriage is something noted by what perspective?
What is the point they made?

Answer 3

Personal life perspective

Relationships as strong as those by blood or marriage are often not weighed in.
People may turn to each other in times of crisis, which is in essence a family.
These are based on the individual’s interpretation

Question 4

Smart’s study looked at what?
(Family)

Answer 4

The perspectives of couples on donor conceived children.
It highlighted how inconsistent and dependent on the individual whether accepting a child that wasn’t biologically theirs was.

Question 5

Murdock’s essential functions of the family are what?

Answer 5

• Stabilisation of the sex drive
• Reproduction
• Meeting each others economic needs
• Primary socialisation of children.

Question 6

What’s Parsons theory of the family?

Answer 6

That the family is a unit performing functions depending on the society it occurs in.

• it’s a geographically mobile work force
• it’s a socially mobile workforce: Skills are required to advance your station in modern society.
• Family is a unit of consumption

Question 7

Engels’ perspective, the Marxist perspective.
Function of the family.

Answer 7

To legitimise the inheritance of wealth down a lineage. To hoard.

Question 8

Karetsky’s perspective: the Marxist perspective.
Function of the family

Answer 8

The Family as a primary socialiser serves and ideological function is making the reality children grow up…
. To accept hierarchy
. To accept schedule (mirroring the work place)
. As a unit of consumption, the family members often have pester power. To remain liked in your family you often feel a need to engage in a consumerist way of thinking to please them.

Question 9

The liberal feminist perspective on the functions of the family.

Answer 9

Generally serves men more than women despite the progress that’s been made to make it more culturally and legally democratic and equal.