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Families (Evaluate sociological contributions to our understanding of…

- - - - Marxist feminism; Engels believed that the concept of family is tailored to the capitalist society.
        
        Producing next generations of workers
        
        Socialisation (religion + education) - reflects wider society
        
        Women provide domestic labour for free (oppress women)
        
        Family is a unit of consumption
        
        Therefore the division of labour and power relationships in couple is not equal in modern family life
        FURTHERMORE: Crompton and Lyonette argue that the division of labour is determined by patriarchal norms, women typically earn less than men, therefore it is economically correct for men to have financial control.
        
        CRITICISM: Functionalist - Parsons argues that the different roles are natural and best suited to the genders e.g. expressive and instrumental - biological differences
      - Domestic violence: dramatic rise, clearly there's not equality then!!!! Dobash and Dobash - found that it was low priority for the police and they often turned a blind eye. Radical feminists see domestic violence as the result of patriarchy - male domination. men oppress women, mainly through the family, where they benefit from women's unpaid domestic labour and sexual services. domestic violence or the threat of it enables men to control women, so it is inevitable in patriarchal society. CRITICISM: march of progress - is the patriarchy still so solid even though women on paper/law are equal, e.g. 1970 equal pay act