Thinkers

Question 1

G P Murdock

Answer 1

the family performs 4 basic functions. (sexual, economic, educational and reproductional)

Question 2

talcott parson

Answer 2

• the family is the main centre of primary socialisation.
• personalities are made not born.
• ‘warm bath theory’ the family works as a way of stabilising adult personalities.
• the nuclear unit provides the wife and husband with very clear and distinct social roles

Question 3

engles

Answer 3

claimed that the monogamous nuclear family became popular because the ruling class wanted it to protect their property and wealth

Question 4

Zaretsky

Answer 4

• the family socialisation of the children into capitalist ideologies.
• nuclear family stabilises the worker away from being oppressed at the capitalist workplace. (married me are less likely to rebel)
• nuclear family acts as a major unit of consumption

Question 5

Anne oakley

Answer 5

liberal feminist

• criticized malestream sociology
• 2014 ‘men are privileged and will not give this up’
• gender in the family is done through those who run the institutions rather and this discrimination is based off ignorance and a mistaken view of the biological differences between men and women

Question 6

Leonard

Answer 6

liberal feminist
-argues that patriarchal ideology underpins dominate ideas about both paid work and domestic labour, and suggests that men are resistant to change because the persistence of unequal division of labour favors them

Question 7

somerville

Answer 7

points out that women now have much greater choice about weather to marry, divorce and have a job. There is now greater equality within the marriage like the sharing of responsibility of childcare.

Question 8

Benston

Answer 8

marxist feminist- suggests that the nuclear family is important for capitalist society because it produces and rears the future workforce at little cost to the capitalist state

Question 9

ansley

Answer 9

marxist feminist- capitalism has stripped male workers if dignity, power and control at work. the women then absorb the man’s anger.

Question 10

Delphy

Answer 10

radical feminist- a womens role within marriage is to flatter the husband.

Question 11

Morgan

Answer 11

new right sociologist- critical of the welfare state policies
marriage is centrally important to society

Question 12

Murray

Answer 12

new right- one parent families are more likely to produce crime than any other family type.

Question 13

Life course

Answer 13

a postmodernist set of analysis which rather than looking at the static family types we should look at rite of passage and different experience as they better reflect our diverse, fast changing modern life.

Question 14

Beaujouan and ni bhrolchain

Answer 14

cohabitation has been normalised. it acts as a pre marriage test or trial run and screens out weaker relationships

Question 15

craig (2007)

Answer 15

found that women do between 1/3 and 1/2 more household work than men. she also discovered a mother penalty- the decision to have a baby results in the mother being financially worse off compared to the man.
fisher - between 1975-1997 mens involvement in childcare rose by 800%

Question 16

Dunne

Answer 16

the traditional division of domestic labour continues today because of what she calls deeply ingrained gender scripts.

Question 17

hakim

Answer 17

feminists underestimate women’s ability to make rational decisions

Question 18

melanie phillips

Answer 18

the culture of parenting in the uk has broken down and the ‘innocence’ of childhood has been undermined by two trends