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Functionalism

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Agree with current society
Society is based on value consensus
Family is the building block to society

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Primary socialisation

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Being taught norms and values through family

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Murdock

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Family is a social group characterised by common residence
The nuclear family is universal

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Nuclear family

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Woman - expressive role
Man - instrumental role

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Monogamy

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One husband or wife

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Modern family

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A couple whose relationship is based on marriage, civil partnership or cohabitation with or without children or a lone parent

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Polygamy

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Marriage to more than one person at the same time

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Polygyny

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One husband multiple wifes

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Polyandry

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One wife multiple husbands

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Value consensus

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Everyone agrees

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Murray

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Sociologist associated with Torys - new right

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Organic analogy

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Family is a body

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Ideological state apparatus

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Institutions that spread bourgeois ideology and ensure that the proletariat is in a state of false class consciousness

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False class consciousness

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Families teach their children that their position in social class is normal and unchangable

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Perverse incentive

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Rewarding bad behaviour

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Underclass

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The class of no working citizens under the working class

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Cycle of deprivation

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The continuation of poverty

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Engles

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Inheritance of property - monogamous marriage

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Eli zaretsky

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The modern nuclear family mainly benefits the ruling class

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Ideological functions

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Criticises functionalists - sanctions as children prepare you to to be controlled by society

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Cult of private life

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Men at home are ‘king of the castles’ at the work place they are bottom, so lowers their resentment for work

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A unit of consumption

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Families teach their kids that happiness lies in consuming goods

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Liberal feminism (majority)

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‘March of progress’ gender equality at home and wider society through reforming existing laws

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Marxist feminism

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Unpaid labour of women and expectation of society on the women to look after their husbands

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Radical feminism
Very critical of the family seeing it as an unequal institution that is patriarchal and men use their financial and physical power to control
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First wave feminism
Suffragettes
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1918 feminism
Women over 30 with property to vote
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1928 feminism
Universal suffrage for women
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Second wave feminism
Liberation movement
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1960s feminism
Equal rights for women and in the work place
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Socialisation in gender
Teaching gender norms - socialising kids in gender, canalisation + manipulation
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Unequal labour
Female triple shift - emotional support, domestic labour and paid work
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Sharpe - like a girl
Teenage girls saying they care more about their education and career over motherhood and marriage
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British social attitudes survey
Men now believe they should contribute to childcare
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Separatism
Women must organise themselves to live independently without men
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Political lesbianism
Heterosexual relationships are oppressive
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Matrilocal household
All female households
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Capitalist ideology
The various economic and political ideologies within capitalist society
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Capitalism
An economic system in which private owners have and control property
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Triple shift
Paid work Domestic work Emotional burden
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Duel burden
When women work at a paid job and unpaid at home
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Patriarchy
Hypothitcial social system where men dominate
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Functional fit theory
A family fits into a particular structure of a given type
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Socially mobile workforce
Able to change your social class and status
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Geographically mobile workforce
People who move to follow available jobs
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Parsons SOAP
Warm bath theory socialision of adult personalities Returing home to nice home to reveal work pressure
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Ansley - marxist
Women are takers of shit They absorb the males frustration
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Benston - marxist
Women are a reserve army of labour, so are only wanted in the work place when needed
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Greer (2000)
Argues in favour of all women house holds - radical
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Oakley liberal feminist
Gender discrimination and how that characterises male/female relationships in a family
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Sommerville social change
March of progress, both men and women have changed attitudes in families allowing greater equality
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Social policies
Made by the government in an attempt to improve society
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Functionalist SP
:) helpful for families, organic analogy part of the bodies system
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Functionalist policies
+ Child benefits + Welfare state + Maternity acts - sex discrimination - family diversity
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Fletcher neofunctionalist
If the family breaks down it is no longer preforming a function so divorce is allowed. Empty shell family
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New right SP
:( The state should play a minimal role. Welfare state promote deviant family types.
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Beveridge report
1942 welfare state established NHS
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New right policies
- divorce laws - child benefits - housing benefits - civil partnerships
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Feminist SP
:) liberal, relate to equal opportunity in work force and education and improves the household position of women. However, adds to their responsibility at home
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Feminist policies
+ equal pay act + sex discrimination act + abortion laws - historical maternity pay
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Marxist SP
:( state serves the interests of capitalism. Three aims: aims to disguise capitalism Maintain workforce Buys of the workforce
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Marxist Policies
- equal pay - minimum wage - NHS

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