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Families, Young and Wilmott 3 stages - Coggle Diagram
Families
Funtionalism
Parsons views two functions of the family being primary socialisation and stabilisation of the adult personality
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Isolated nuclear family= Do not form relationships with other kindship ties. Due to moving to more rural area bc industrial revolution
Murdock views the family as 'characterised by common residence, economic co-operation + reproduction. Includes adults who maintain a socially approved relationships'
4 basic funtions of the family as economic, sexual educational and reproductive
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Yanina Sheeran argues the female- carer core is the most basic family unit because women are primary carers
Eval on Murdock:
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Stacy contradicts mudock by researching Musuo people found that fathers show no obligation to caring for their children although their pop is only 40,000
Marxism
View the family as an institution to advanced capitalism, producing profits for the bourgeoisie
Engles believes that in the early stages of evolution, families were not a thing, promiscuity were on top with no rules limiting sexual relationship
Monogamous nuclear family developed with emergence of private property and private ownership of the forces of reproduction
Althusser believes the family is part of the superstructure. purpose is to make family give into false class consciousness
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Zaretsky see the capitalist system to be based on the domestic labour of housewives, they provide and nurture their children so they can be a good worker for the capitalist system
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Jennifer Sumerville says that he exxadurates importance of family being an escape from the capitalist society
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He says work life and home life has been blurred eg women being surrogates is essentially renting out their womb
Primitive communism- property collectively owned, Tribal groups
Feminism
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They view the family as an institution involving power relationships, challenging families purely based on love
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March of progress
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Replaced manual labour, migration from rural to urban in search of factory jobs, emergence of working class
Parsons= family structures chaged from extended to nuclear during the transition from pre indust to indust saying that the family adapts to changes in society and economy
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