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family - homework mindmap
downplaying conflict
Murdock
and
Parson
do this by painting a 'rosy picture of family life'
it is a harmonious and integrated institution
this can affect report rates of women and interactions with the police in domestic abuse questions
David Cheal (1919)
police and prosecutors may be reluctant o record, investigate or prosecute those cases that are presented to them, because it is a domestic issue.
found that this reluctance to report is due to the fact that Police and other state agencies are
not prepared to become involved in the family
due to
3 assumptions
that they make about the family
the family is a
private sphere
so access to it by the state agencies should be limited
the
family is a good thing
and so agencies tend to neglect the
'darker side'
of family life
individuals are free agents, so it is assumed that is a women is experiencing abuse
she is free to leave
this down plays the conflict that can be experienced in family life
for example:
violence against women (domestic abuse)
child abuse
this conflict may cause children to become emotionally damaged and/or disturbed by conflict between parents and may be used as
scapegoats
by parents
the conflict experienced by families may be caused by increasing emotional stress caused by privatisation - family members feel more isolated and atomistic creating a feeling of less support and more emotional stress often resulting in short tempers and outbursts of violence
being out of date
Parsons's
view of the 'instrumental' and 'expressive' roles of men and women is
very old-fashioned
- written in
1959
this is because it matches the majority where married women were full-time housewives, and men where the breadwinners in most households.
this does not match the majority in modern society - most married/cohabitating women are wage-earning bread-winners.
this also does not match the changing trends in childcare as men are taking on greater responsibilities for childcare -
both partners are likely to be playing both the expressive and instrumental roles at various times
ignoring the exploitation of women
functionalists
tend to ignore the way women suffer from the
sexual division of labour
in the family
sexual division of labour
based on the ideological separation of the spheres of
production and reproduction into ‘work’ (men) and ‘home/family’ (women)
this is because the responsibility for housework and childcare undermining their position in paid employment
for example
restricted working hours because of the need to prepare children's meals, take them to and from school, and look after them when they are ill
housework also causes stress, leading to metal illness - these concerns are typically raised by feminist writers
Even today, women still end up being the primary child carers in 90% of families, and suffer the burden of extra work that this responsibility carries compared to their male partners
Sylvia Walby
- suggested that women are controlled in society and that part of this control is in the family
women are controlled through
violence
in the home - physical, psychological ands financial
the family
educates
its members into norms and values of the patriarchy
children are
socialised into reproducing gender roles
women's sexuality is controlled through
monogamous relationships
ignoring the harmful effects of the family
Leach (1967)
asserts that, in modern society, the
nuclear family
has become so isolated from kin and the wider community (this is caused by
privatisation
forcing individual to become more
atomistic
)
because of this the
nuclear family
has become an inward-looking institution that lead to
emotional stress
. - cause of abuse and 'dark side' of family?
family members expect and demand too much from one another, and this stress generates
conflict within the family
argues that
' Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents'
Cooper (1972) and Laing and Esterson (1970)
argues that the family
'terrorises' children
by destroying their
free will, imagination and creativity
. both suggests that the family us responsible for turning imaginative children into
conformist automata
Laing
suggests that schizophrenia is caused by
experiences within the family
. he argues that family relationships are potentially destructive because the
intensity of nuclear family
life means that we worry about
how much we are loved by other family members, particularly our parents
because of this anxiety, family members become like
gangsters
, offering each other mutual protection and love to be used against other family members.
Consequently, we become
mutually suspicious
of each other's motives and this becomes the
basis of mental breakdown and family arguments and feuds which can last for years
.