FAMILY: asses the view that family diversity is harmful to both the individual and society Flashcards
1
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Functionalist
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- Nuclearfamily plays a role in biological analogy
- Murdock 4 functions
- Parsons - functional fit - expressive and instrumental roles
2
Q
New Right
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Murray - absent fathers
Increase welfare dependancy
Tax breaks to incourage marriage
3
Q
Marxism
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Engels property laws Althusser - ideological tool of social oppression - creates false class conciousness
4
Q
Marxists feminists
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Ansley ‘takers of shit’
5
Q
Radical feminists
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Greer - Matrilocal households
family is patriarchal
6
Q
Gay marriage
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legal march 2014
7
Q
Reconstituded family
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Bedell - Can be happy if both parents comitted
De-ath - difficult to adjust
8
Q
lone parenting
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better than unahppy family - NATCEN
9
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Postmodernists
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better for people to have choice
Beck-s negotiated society
