PERSPECTIVES Flashcards

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Parsons - functional fit theory:

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Geographically mobile workforce
A social mobile workforce

Primary socialisation of children
Stabilisation of adult personalities

= will effect the shape/structure of the family (nuclear or extended)

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Murdock

- family functions

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  • stable satisfaction of sex drive
  • reproduction of the next generation
  • socialisation of the Young
  • meeting the economics needs (food and shelter)
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Why do Marxist criticise murdocks functions of the family ?

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It meets the needs of capitalism not the family or society

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Why do Feminists criticise murdocks functions of the family ?

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See family as serving the needs of men and oppressing women

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Marxist view on family

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  • inheritance of property
  • ideological functions
  • unit of consumption
    (- prop the the capitalist system?)
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What are the 4 different types of feminists to do with the family?

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  • liberal
  • Marxist
  • Radical
  • difference
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What do LIBERAL feminists believe about the family?

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  • want to ensure there is equal rights, against sex discrimination
  • women’s oppression is changing for the better as people’s attitudes are changing
  • there is great equality
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What do MARXIST feminists believe about the family?

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  • women’s oppression is not men but CAPITALISM:
    • women reproduce the labour force
    • suffer explorations like DV
    • cheap labour for women
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What do RADICAL feminists believe about the family?

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  • men are the enemy
  • family and marriage key institutions of patriarchy
  • unpaid domestic labour
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What do DIFFERENCE feminists believe about the family?

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  • argue that all women are different and go through different experiences of the family
  • lesbian, heterosexual, white, black, m/c, w/c = all different experience

We can’t generalise

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5 types of family…

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  1. Relationship with friends
  2. Fictive kin
  3. Gay and lesbian ‘chosen family’
  4. Relationship with dead relative man
  5. Relations with pets

People make their own family, not just one

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Erin

Donor-conceived children

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Found the egg donor-conceived children = raising a child ‘that’s what makes a mother and not the cell that starts it odd’

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