Theories of the Family Flashcards
What is Dependency Culture?
Where people assume that the state will support them financially.
What is Exploitation?
Paying orders less than the value of their labour. According to Marixsts, it is the process whereby the bourgeoisie extract surplus value or profit from the labour of the proletariat.
What is Functional Fit Theory?
Parsons’ theory that, with industrialisation, the structure of the family becomes nuclear to fit the needs of industrial society for a geographically and socially mobile labour force.
What does Murdock find about the theories of the family?
Murdock argues that the family performs four essential functions to meet the needs of society and it’s members.
What does Parsons suggest about the ‘functional fit’?
The functions that the family performs ill depend on the kind of society which it is found.
Explain the functional fit theory
It is parson’s theory that ith industrialisation, the structure of the family becomes nuclear to fit the needs of industrial society for a geographically mobile labour force.
Functionalism
A consensus perspective in sociology that sees society as based on shared values into hich members are socialised.
What is Marxism?
A conflict perspective based on the ideas of Karl Marx. It sees society as divided into two opposed classes. The bourgeoisie and the proletariat. Marxists argue that institutions like the family maintain capitalism.
What is postmodernism?
A theory that rejects the modernists’ belief in process and their vie that we can have certain true knoledge of society that will enable us to improve it.
What is separatism
A radical feminist idea that women should live in independently of men.
What is the unit of consumption
Unlike the pre industrial family, the modern family no longer works together but still consumes together as a single unit or group.
What is the unit of production
Wher efamily members work together as economic production.
