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MARXISM AND FUNCTIONALISM WITH THE FAMILY (MARXISM (ENGLES 1820-1895…
MARXISM AND FUNCTIONALISM WITH THE FAMILY
MARXISM
ENGLES 1820-1895
Monogamous families were favoured so that men could be sure that their children really were their biological child.
Women become 'glorified prostitutes', producers of heirs in exchange for economic security.
Nuclear family was set up so capital (wealth) could legally be passed on to heirs- money could stay within the family.
Monogamous marriage ensured that women would be economically dependant on their male partners and as such would not stray and mother children by other men.
Nuclear family develops as a response to industrialisation and the growing trend to 'own property'
ZARETSKY 1986
The family allows the worker to relax, refresh and unwind after work.
Workers can then feel revitalised for work the next day.
The family provides a 'cushion' from the effects of 'alternating work'
Families separate and fragment individuals rom the rest of the community- this dampens revolutionary potential. (divide conquer).
MURDOCK 1949
The 4 functions of the family:
Reproduction
Primary socialisation
Teaching the sexuality and gender roles
economic security
PARSONS 1955
The 2 functions of the family
Primary socialisation
The stabilisation of human personalities
CRITICISM
Is the nuclear family popular within society?
What might functionalists have to say on Marxists ideas?
Is the family primarily centred around work?
Are women glorified prostitutes within the family?
FUNCTIONALISTS
MURDOCK
4 Functions (jobs / roles)
socialise the young - teaching norms and values / primary - family / secondary - education / focal agent - education
Meet families economic needs: food / shelter / medicines / water / clothes.
Reproduction of the next generation: New babies. Birth ratio / dependency ratio / no dependency on welfare.
Stable satisfaction of sex drive- monogamous. Not going to have a sexual free for all
AO3 CRITICISM
ignores dark side of the family (abuse)
Ignores family diversity
Feminists patriarchal
Ignores poverty
PARSONS
Preindustrial= Nuclear family
Postmodernism= Still mainly nuclear but also diversity
Family performs according to type of society
Modernism= Nuclear family
Functional fit family
NUCLEAR FAMILY
More to the City
Geographical mobile work force
More to job
Mobile workforce
evolve skills
Technology
Primary socialisation / stabilisation of adult personalities if we don't have a nuclear family we don't have these.
CONTEMPORARY LINK
'Epidemic' knife crime / inflated exaggerated- cicollrel negotiation of justice.