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FAMILY SOC PAPER 1 :<3: - Coggle Diagram
FAMILY SOC PAPER 1 :<3:
Functionalists
The organic analogy - The human body is made up of different parts that function together to meet its needs and maintain it. Functionalists believe society does the same, in which it is made up of interdependent parts (eg. the education system, the government, religion etc) that work together to maintain the social system as a whole.
Murdock - the nuclear family performs four essential functions (Socialisation of the young, Satisfaction of the member's economic needs, reproduction of the next generation, stable satisfaction of the sex drive)
Parsons
The functional fit
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Primary socialisation of the young - equipping the next generation with basic skills and society’s values.
Stabilisation of adult personalities - enabling adults to relax so they can return to the workplace and perform their roles effectively.
Marxists
Engels - The family exists so men can pass their private property onto their biological offspring, notably a son.
Zaretsky - There is an ideological function of the family called the ‘cult of private life’ - this is the belief that we can only gain fulfilment from family life, which distracts attention from exploitation.
Feminists
Liberal feminists - take a march of progress view in suggesting gender inequality is gradually being overcome through reform and policy change, which changes people’s attitudes towards socialisation and challenges stereotypes
Marxist feminist - Capitalism is the main form of women's oppression in the family and it performs several functions for capitalism
Marxist feminists -
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A reserve army of cheap labour - when not needed, women workers can return to their domestic role.
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Radical feminists - The family and marriage are key institutions in a patriarchal society, meaning that men benefit from the women's unpaid domestic labour and sexual services, as well as dominate them through violence or the threat of it
They believe the patriarchal system needs to be overturned, and the only way to achieve this is through separatism, women need to organise themselves to live independently to men
New right
A biologically based division of labour - the division of labour between a male breadwinner and a female homemaker is natural and biologically determined
Families should be self-reliant, reliance on state welfare leads to dependency culture and undermines traditional gender roles. It produces a family breakdown and an increase of lone-parent families, which results in social problems due to poor socialisation.