Family and Households Flashcards
(46 cards)
Murdock - Function of the Family
4 functions:
Sexual - to regulate sexual urges to define who you can/t have sex with
Reproductive - To increase the population
Economic - Provide food and shelter
Educational - primary socialisation of the next generation
Parsons - Function of the Family
Primary socialisation of the next generation
Stabilisation of adult personalities - all members of the family support the adults
Zaretsky - Function of the Family
Reproduction of labour power - sons inherit their fathers businesses which maintains the bourgeoisie
Consumption Unit - ready-made markets for goods and services to maintain capitalism
Ansley - Function of the family
Quell male alienation - Women’s role was to soak up their husbands frustration at work (violence) and prevents them from taking out their anger on their bosses
Delphy and Leonard - Function of the family
Preserve patriarchy - 57 varieties of unpaid labour from women
Women were dependant on their husbands
Women who tried to avoid this conformity were limited by patriarchy
Purdy - Function of the Family
Women are pressured to have children
Familial ideology - modern women were socialised into believing that the nuclear family is beneficial
Women are sold the dream that they can have it all but were restrained by housework and taking care of the kids
Parsons - Nuclear Family IS beneficial
Isolated Nuclear Family is the most beneficial to society
Pre-industrial - both adults contributed to productive unit
Male breadwinner and female carer in modern era
Murray - Nuclear Family IS beneficial
The Nuclear Family is the bedrock of family structures
Criticised lone-parent families as it created a deviant subculture
Benson - Nuclear Family IS beneficial
6% of married families that live together divorced
20% of cohabiters divorced
Parents had to make a deliberate commitment which created strength
Children helped parents reconnect their love for eachother
Benston - Nuclear Family COULD be beneficial
Sexual division of labour benefitted the ruling class
Unpaid labour by women was beneficial for capitalism
Proletariat man works of money which both the man and woman use - buy one get one free
Somerville - Nuclear Family COULD be beneficial
Womens movement successfully influenced social policy
This meant women would have a better life in the nuclear family compared to the past
NF has potential to evolve to benefit women
Greer - Nuclear Family is DETRIMENTAL to society
Expectation of being a wife was not realistic
90’s man they got engaged to was not the same man after the wedding - a neanderthal
Women sacrificed themself for their kids despite bing abandoned when they grew older
Dobash and Dobash - Nuclear Family is DETRIMENTAL to society
Domestic Violence - existed amongst all socio-economic classes and income groups.
DV is detrimental to society
Patriarchal Ideology was hidden in love language
Calhoun - Nuclear Family is DETRIMENTAL to society
NF embodies heterosexual ideology that masks the oppression of women.
Lesbians and gays were free to develop their own family models
Straight people exercised their right to create their own.
All family structures now fight to be acceptable
Parsons - Family Diversity
NF evolved to serve the needs of newly industrialised nations
New size increases the economy as new job opportunities open
Parents could no longer socialise their children so institutions like schools were created
Engels - Family Diversity
Many different types of family that are appropriate for economic and social systems
Monogamous NF developed with the advent of private property
Males pass down to males, women become subservient
Laslett - Family Diveristy
In the past 10% of family structures were extended
Nuclear Family was dominant in pre-industrial society
Chester - Modernist Inspired Views on Family Diversity
We have not abandoned the NF but it has largely disappeared
Marriage patterns changed in the post-war
NF adapted to Neo-conventional family which has joint conjugal roles
The Rapoports - Modernist Inspired Views on Family Diversity
Cultural - religion/ethnicity directed views on FD
Life-Cycle - newly-weds have different view on family life than NF
Organisational - Sexual Division of Labour
Generational - time you rach adult life
Social Class - nanny vs grandparents
Giddens - Late Modernist Inspired Views on Family Diversity
Availability of contraception has driven a wedge between men and women
Modernity - need marriage for sex
Late Modernity - plastic sexuality
Relationships based on fulfilment of needs like love, so people out of love have no issue leaving
Cheal - Post Modernist Inspired Views on Family Diversity
During modernity, people had little freedom to define their own reality
No longer the case
Pick and mix - we now decide what a family is
Stacey - Post Modernist Inspired Views on Family Diversity
Families are fluid in the postmodern age
Divorce extended families - women friends with ex partners
More unhitched
Weeks et Al - Post Modernist Inspired Views on Family Diversity
Ability to make choices
Many gay people shielded their sexuality so entered fake marriages
Gays now have power to create their own family
Smart - Personal Life
Memory
Embeddedness
Life history
Imaginary
Rationality
We have strong love bonds with everyone
