Theories of family: Functionalist Flashcards
Define ‘geographically mobile workforce’
Moving houses for their jobs
define ‘socially mobile workforce’
Earning status (achieved) rather than ascribed
which type of society and family value a geographically mobile workforce
modern industrial and nuclear family
Nuclear family prevents conflict. give eg of a conflict
nuclear family is one couple and their dependent children
the son would have moved out in the modern society
ie)Son having a higher status than the father
What do functionalist believe about the role of the family’s role?
- to maintain social system
-benefit society and the individual members
-meet the needs of subsystems in society (eg. economy, education)
Explain the organic analogy
-Society is like a biological organism
-Society has different but interdependent parts in the system (subsystems) need to work together in order to maintain social order
Name Murdock’s FOUR functions of the family
sexual, reproductive, p.socialisation,economic functions
Explain the four functions
what did PARSONs argue
-argues that the type and range of family functions depends on the society they’re in
-society determines the family structure
what are the two types of family structure that parson identified?
- Three generational E.F : found in pre industrial society
- Two generational N.F : found in modern society
which family structure is both a unit of consumption or production
Extended family
what are the two needs that nuclear family fit
- geographical mobility
- social mobility
two irreducible functions that NF are left with
-primary socialisation
-stabilisation of adult personalities
