Match belief to sociologist (family) Flashcards
Functionalist thinker
Warm Bath theory
Functional fit
Structural Differentiation
Instrumental Role
Parsons
Childhood is disappearing
Information Hierarchy, crime, sexualisation, blurring of responsibilities.
Criticised by: Opie
Postman
A study looking at housewives and housework
Believed that the march of progress view is an over exaggeration as women still do a majority of domestic labour
Anne Oakley
Associated with sociology of personal life
Personal life suggests choices are based on experiences.
Carol Smart
Associated with toxic childhood
Junk Food, Technology and Video Games, Lack of parental engagement.
Sue Palmer
Cushioning effect
the family acts as a comfort from the stresses and strains of society
Zaretsky
Functionalist thinker
4 functions of the family - Economic, Reproduction, Socialisation, Stabilisation of Sex Drive.
Nuclear family is a universal institution
Murdock
Associated with the negotiated family and individualisation theory
Beck
Believes that childhood is not disappearing, but changing
Criticised Postman
Opie
Looked into the historical differences in childhood
Investigated through Paintings and Photographs
Aries
Money is controlled in the family via pooling and allowance.
Pahl and Volger
Suggested that domestic violence is caused by patriarchy and the need for men to assert their power over women
Dobash and Dobash
investigated the Tikopia tribe in relation to Children
Firth
Main thinker in the New Right
Charles Murray
Associated with the neo conventional family
That is, a dual-earner family in which both parents go out to work not just the father
Chester
Marxist thinker
believed that the nuclear family is a tool of capitalism by enabling the inheritance of wealth
Engles
