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theories of the family - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Stabilisation of adult personalities
        
        Warm bath theory
        
        family provides emotional support and security
      - Primary socialization
        
        Families are responsible for teaching children the norms,values and rules of society
        
        Expressive role - nurturing children
        
        instrumental rule - providing financial support
  - - - These could be performed by other institutions
      - ignore the negative aspects like neglect and exploitation
    - - Studied 250 different societies, nuclear families are universal and argues that families perform 4 essential functions
        
        Economic needs
        
        Reproduction of the next generation
        
        Socialisation
        
        Satisfaction of the sex drive
- - - - Engles
        
        a patriarchal monogamous nuclear family became essential in capitalist society because of the inheritance of private property