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FUNCTIONALISM
- in order to create a successful society is to maintain social order, if a system doesn’t work well all other parts will fall.

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  • popular in the 1940s and 1950s in America
  • less popular view now
  • influenced the way people in government think about people.
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GEORGE PETER MURDOCK (1949)

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  • The families role is vital in maintaining societies equilibrium
  • the family performs 4 essential functions to meet the needs of society
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SEXUAL

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Stable satisfaction of the sex drive - expressing sexuality in a socially acceptable way

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REPRODUCTION

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Next generation - needed to provide a suitable way to raise children

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SOCIALISATION

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Socialising the young - help teach children socially acceptable values and behaviours

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ECONOMIC

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Meeting members economic needs - provides food + shelter for family members

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FAMILIES - the functionalist views

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RAPOPORT + RAPOPORT
(1982)

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  • 5 elements of family diversity in Britain, organisational diversity, cultural, class, lifecycle, cohort.
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DUNCOMBE + MARSDEN
(1995)

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  • Working women undertake triple shifts
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YOUNG + WILLMOTT
(1973)

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  • Modern families share conjugal roles between the partners, expressive (caring, domestic tasks) , instrumental (earning, providing, decision making)
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ROBERT CHESTER
(1985)

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  • Most people live their lives in the nuclear family types the neo-conventional family
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COMPOSITION - number of children/parents, traditional/same sex parents, beanpole, boomerang etc

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RELATIONSHIPS/ROLES - symmetrical, patriarchal, matrifocal, child centred.

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CRITICISMS OF MURDOCK

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-Murdock ignores the dark side of family, NOT beneficial for everyone (conflict theories)

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CRITICISMS OF MURDOCK

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MARXISTS - family meets needs of capitalist systems, not needs of family members and society

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CRITICISMS OF MURDOCK

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FEMINISTS - family serve needs of men and oppresses women

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CRITICISMS OF MURDOCK

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POSTMODERNISTS - outdated, ignores family diversity and individual choices as to lifestyle

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TALCOTT PARSONS
(1955)

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  • The family can perform many functions depending on societal needs. This is called “functional fit” theory
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PRE-INDUSRIALISED SOCIETY

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  • Importance of extended family - to provide workers for all roles on farms and home businesses
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INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY

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  • Importance of the nuclear family - “types” of families needed for society to function has changed as society changed.
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PARSONS - family in modern society has lost many of its functions

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  • in modern society nuclear families have 2 essential functions
    - primary socialisation of children
    - stabilisation of human personalities

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