FAMILY ESSAY WRITERS Flashcards
Murdock
studied 250 societies and found that nuclear families existed in them all. So it is a universal institution. the nuclear family has 4 functions: sexual, reproductive, economic and educational.
Parsons
the family has 2 functions. 1: primary socialisation of children, 2: stabilization of adult personalities. Warm bath theory. the family provides the means to relax and relieve the frustrations of modern living.
Fletcher
is optimistic about the nuclear family. Says it still socialises the young, provides a stable home and a warm bath to soak away the stresses of the outside world.
Murray
Underclass. The increase in single parent hood is one of the factors to the growth of the underclass. Unconventional family types lack male role models and don’t provide adequate socialisation for children.
Dennis and Erdos
Where the nuclear family has broken down, young males in particular have been badly affected. Children had a greater chance of having poor physical health if they were non fathered.
Morgan
She states that infant mortality rates are higher for children living with their mother but no father. Children taken into care are mostly from single parent households. Children from single parent families more likely to be delinquent and have lower vocabulary skills.
Delphi and Leonard RAD FEMINISTS
See society as being patriarchal as well as the unit of the family. Sexism is embedded in all of the institutions. Domestic violence maintains power of men. The family is an economic system in which men benefit. Women are exploited.
Millet RAD FEMINISTS
sees modern society and families as characterised by patriarchy, she suggests that men originally acquired power over women due to biological factors but suggest that modern technology like the pill, has largely rendered this legitimation of male power redundant.
Ansley MARXIST FEMINISTS
The traditional housewife role was to provide support for her husband by acting as a safety valve. She meant that the frustrated feelings the husband may feel about his job would be absorbed by her.
Benston MARXIST FEMINIST
Capitalism exploits women by expecting them to reproduce and rear the future work force for free. Women cushion the negative effects of capitalism such as the husbands lack of power in the workplace by letting him exercise physical power in the home.
Leach DARKSIDE
The nuclear family will always have conflict within it as its members demand too much from each other. A family with continuous conflict is not ideal for any society.
Stanko statistics
1/4 women and 1/7 men report physical assault. 10% of women experience domestic violence a year
Nazroo
Small scale study of couples. His research suggests that domestic violence has different meanings and different consequences for men and women.
Engels MARXIST
Exploitation of women in families started the same time as capitalism, women regarded as dependants and domestic servants.
Zaretsky MARXIST
The family as an ideological state apparatus. It is arranged hierarchically so workers are discouraged from questioning the hierarchy in the workplace. Families reproduce the next gen of labour power for the capitalist system at relatively low cost to that system.
