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Families and households: Perspectives - Coggle Diagram
Families and households: Perspectives
Marxism
Functionalism
Murdoch 4 functions of the family
Reproduction
Economic
Sex
Socialisation
Family does not always provide these functions as parents cheat and children are not always properly socialised
Industrialisation
Perfect for nuclear family
Geographic mobility
Extended kin were geographically immobile
Nuclear family able to move: geographically mobile factor of production
Led to the privatised nuclear family as families would leave their extended kin to move to the industrial places so that the man could find work and income
Parsons
Primary socialisation of children
Stabilisation of human adult personalities
human organic analysis
explains families as an important unit in order for society to function properly
Family is considered an organ that plays many role
Famil
New right
Feminism