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Perspectives- Families - Coggle Diagram
Perspectives- Families
Functionalism
Murdock 4 functions: sexual, reproduction, education and economic
Parsons 2 functions
stabilising adult personality= omitting chaos from the family by ensuring marital relationship demonstrated good emotions
socialisation of children= particularistic standrds turn universalistic, educating, internalising consensus norms and values
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expressive role= motherly care for children, domestic tasks, fulfilling sexual function to satisfy husband
instrumental role= breadwinner, economic purpose, financial stability, serves economic function
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Industrialisation
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- pre-industrial extended families dominate with close relationships, care for elderly, fits rural economy
- urbanisation caused nuclear families to form, increasing geographic mobility, clear gender division of labour as men worked in factories and women looked after children
created isolated nuclear family, specialised roles, achieved status not ascribed
Young and wilmott
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symmetrical family- patriachy decreases sharing parental roles equally, no more expressive vs instrumental
Marxism
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family allows bourgeoise to pass down their capital and private property to reinforce social claas inequalities
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socialises children into internalising capitalist beliefs and auhtority, creating false class consciousness by whic people think exploitation is normal
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safe haven= family is a resort from exploitation and opression, cushioning effects of capitalism (Zaretsky)
alienation= one feels separate from self as a result of being a mechanism for society rather than personal life (Hoschild)
pester power= childrem demand capitalist marketed products from parents, creating profits for the upper class (Donzelot)
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Engels
- Monogamy- restrictions on sexual relations ensured parents knew who to pass private land onto, reproduce intergenerational inequality
- Primative communism- property collectively owned, no families but tribal groups, society as classless, high promiscuity
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Feminism
Marxist
domestic violence is a product of capitalism- men are exploited at work and take anger out on wives at home
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Liberal
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Somerville
failure to acknowledge progress inw ork, equality and pay
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newly found 'Pink tax' reinforces patriachy by channelling women into paying more for the same products
Radical
Marsden triple shift= emotional, paid and unpaid work
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Greer- women become the 'ghastly figure of the bride' who are ignored after the honeymoon with men doing better out of marriage than women
Delphy and Leonard
women do 60% more unapid work (ONS) contributing most to the family compared to men, but men gain the most from the family
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New Right
Murray- underclass created by perverse incentives from the state for families to thrive on beneifts as single parent households
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Post/late modernism
Giddens- reflexivity, plastic sexuality, self identity
Beck and Beck- second modernity, indivisualism creates risk society
Stacey- no dominant family type, Pam and Dotty, gayby boom
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