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Family
Postmodernism
Increased social change, fragmentation and diversity have made families more unstable and diverse because they are a matter of personal choice.
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Ulrich Beck
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Patriarchal family was oppressive but provided a predictable and stable basis where roles were defined.
Giddens
Relationships are pure as they are a part of self discovery and couples are free to define relationships themselves.
With choice relationships became less stable, most teenagers believe their relationship will only last a year.
Stacey
Women have more freedom than every to shape family arrangements to meet their needs and free themselves of patriarchal oppression.
Found in studies in California women are the driving force behind changes in the families and rejecting traditional gender roles.
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Marxist Feminism
Women produce the next labour force through socialisation, domestic labour and servicing husbands.
Need to tackle capitalism to tackle the patriarchy such as paying women for domestic labour or the abolishing of capitalism and ushering of communism.
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Penny Red: concentration of women in low-paid/ un-paid work sustains patriarchy and capitalism as work they are doing for free is essential.
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Radical Feminism
Men are the cause of women's oppression and exploitation, the family is also the root of female oppression.
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Dark side to the family.
British Crime Survey found domestic violence accounts for a sixth of all violent crime, and 1 in 4 women are expected to be victims.
Kate Millet
Family acts as a unit in the government of the patriarchal state which rules its citizens through its family heads.
Male priorities have been modified through granting for marriage protection, women's obligation to adopt husband's domicile, and legal assumption that marriage involves an exchange of sexual consortium from women for financial support.
Functionalism
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Murdock 4 essential functions of the family: stable satisfaction of the sex drive, socialisation, economic support and reproduction.
Organic analogy: society is made of different institutions that each perform different functions to keep society going.
Marxism
Engles: monogamous family emerged with capitalism to reproduce inequality teaching passive acceptance of hierarchy.
Althusser: ideological state apparatus promoting values that ensure the reproduction and maintenance of capitalism.
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Feminism
Liberal
Sommerville
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Many ignore progress made with marriage, cohabitation and fertility.
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Ann Oakley
Gender role socialisation: canalisation, manipulation, verbal appellations, different activities.
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