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Families and Households - Coggle Diagram

- - - - some sociologists argue that these functions could be performed well by other institutions, or non-nuclear families. Murdock does not accept that other institutions could perform these functions.
        
        Marxists and Feminists have criticises Murdock and rejected his rose-tinted consensus view, that the family needs the needs of both wider society and all members of the family. Functionalism neglect women and oppression in the family.
        
        Feminists argue that the nuclear family serves the needs of men and contributes to the exploitation of women, because the nuclear family is patriarchal.
        
        Marxists argue that the nuclear family meets the needs of capitalism and not individual family members or society, because the women provide her labour for free.
    - - debatable whether the extended family was dominant in pre-industrial society. Laslett's study showed there were almost always nuclear, so he was overstating the impact of industrialisation.
      - Young and Willmott found early industrial society are 'mum-centred' nuclear families, as mums and daughters relied on eachother to cope with life.
      - the emergence of welfare support has replaced the role of the extended families for many, but is still important in an increasingly multicultural society.