Functionalists - Families and households Flashcards
Families and households
1
Q
Murdock
A
Family has 4 functions REES (reproduction, economic, education, sexual)
2
Q
Parsons theory of families and households
A
Functional fit theory, 2 functions of the family (primary socialisation and stabilisation of adult personalities)
3
Q
What is the functionalist perspective of the family?
A
-Macro
-Dominant perspective in the 1940s and 1950s
-fit between industrial societies and the nuclear family
-look at family structure and roles and relationships
-examine families in terms of their functions
