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Sociology traffic light test - Coggle Diagram
Sociology traffic light test
Functionalism
Murdock
Sexual
The family regulates sexual activity
Husbands and wives have sexual access to each other only
Prevents adultery, incest, homesexuality
Disadvantage
Limits sexual "free for all" thereby maintaining stability in society
Adultery is still at thing
Reproduction
Family is responsible to bearing and raising children
Provides society with the future generation to maintain society
Disadvantage
A lot of people are choosing not to have children but adopting instead
Economic
The family provides food and shelter for its members
Disadvantage
Government can give money
Education
Can also be termed 'socialisation'
The family has responsibility of transmitting a society's way of life, norms and values to the younger members.
This function is an important one to create value
Disadvantage
Not just the family can provide education
The Nuclear Family was Universal, it consisted of "two adults of both sexes" raising "one or more children of the cohabiting adults."
Parsons
Primary socialization of children
The family must transmit the culture of the society to the children
Stabilisation of adult personalities
Family life provides adults with emotional security
Expressing their childish whims
Feminists
Liberal
Bit sexist in society and society has changed quite a bit
Things are constantly improving for women
Worried about the extremist views that it is giving Feminist a bad name
Have equality
Radical
Patraiarchy
Women should fight back and sort out society once and for all
Women can't get pas this glass roof
They can't get promotions because of babies
Don't have any more children
Marxists
Capitalism weakenes women and men
Get rid of capaitalism and change to a communist all problems should go away
Legally people should be paid the same amount of money at this time
Women getting exploited at home and work
Men get exploited only once
Intersectional
Recognising the different levels of femininism
"The comlex, cumulative manner in which the effects of different forms of discrimination combine, overlap or intersect".
The word itself was first used by scholar and civil rights advocate Kimberle Crenshaw in 1989.
Marxism
Inheritance of Property
Engels
Monogamous nuclear families developed as a means of passing on private property to heirs.
Was an ideal mechanism as it provided proof of paternity
Women's position in the family was not much different from that of prostitutes
She provided heirs and sex in return for financial security provided by her husband
A02
The family wealth has been under the complete control of the male members of the dynasty, through the family office.
Despite strong-willed wives, in all cases they received allowances only and were never given even partial responsibility for the family fortune.
A03
Too economically deterministic
Not all women marry for children (hopefully)
Ignore family diversity
Ideological stake appraoch
Althusser
Passing on the ideolgoy of the ruling class
The family socializes children into the idea that hierarchy and inequality are inevitable
It teaches them to accept the idea that some are always in charge
A03
Does everyone born into the working class blindly accept hierarchy
Does noe one try to challenge the position they're in
Unit of consumption
Zaretsky
Pester powder
Prop up capitalism
The family is important in generating profits since it is an important market for the sale of consumer goods.
Advertisers urge familes to 'keep up with the Jonses' by consuming all the latest products
The media target children who use 'pester powder' to persuade parent to spend more.
A02
Pressure to buy
A03
Functionalists argue that Marxists ignore the benefits that a family brings.
Feminists say family serves the interests of men not capitalists and Marxits ignores gender equality
Children who lack the latest clothes or 'must have' gadgets are mocked and stigmatized by their peers