Key Thinkers Flashcards
Murdock (1949)
Building block of S 4 functions (S.R.S.E) N family = universal
Parsons (1955)
Functional fit Adaption + industrialisation social mobility + achieved status N family = uniquely suited to industrial S Structural differentiation P socialisation of children + SOAP
Laslett
Study of English household before industrial rev
Almost always nuclear
High IMR + low life expectancy - 2 generations = norm
Willmott + Young
Family = more privatised (industrialisation)
Home centred - symmetrical family
Murray + Marsland
Dependency culture Underclass SPFs = dysfunctional, moral decay Perverse incentive Decline of the TNF
Dennis + Erdos (1992)
Research in 1980s
Fatherless families
Engles (1884)
Monogamous N family
Passing private property to heirs
Zaretsky (1976)
Primary socialisation, always age patriarchy
‘Buffer zone’ - ideological illusion
Unit of consumption (commodities, pester power)
Althusser (1971)
ISA
Reproduces + reinforces rc ideology
Family = part of C infrastructure
False class consciousness
Donzelot (1977)
State control of families = ideological (indirect) State professionals police families IOT change them Problem families (poor)
Ansley (1972)
SOAP
‘safety valve’ for mens frustration at C system
‘takers of shit’
Oakley (1974)
Industrialisation has gradually excluded women for the workplace
Confined them to housewife role
enforced W’s economic dependence
Dobash + Dobash (1979)
Patriarchal heterosexual marriage legitimates domestic violence (against women)
Set off by W challenging authority of men
Somerville (2000)
Reform = needed, not revolution
Changes in social policy is the answer
Greer (2000)
S’s need for heterosexual marriage = con
M need marriage more than W
Single women tend to be content with life
Married men score higher on measure of psychological well than single men
