Theories - sociologists Flashcards
1
Q
Greer
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radical feminist - matrilocal households - hetrosexual relationships is ‘sleeping with the enemy’
2
Q
Ansley
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women are the ‘takers of shit’ in the family
3
Q
Murdock
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4 functions of family:
- stabilisation of sex drive
- reproduction
- socialisation
- economic
4
Q
Parsons
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extended family changed to nuclear as there was a need for geographical mobile workforce
5
Q
Zaretsky
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family provide idealogical function: safe haven from exploitation of capitalism
6
Q
Althusser
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family is a part of the idealogical state apparatus
7
Q
Engles
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family reproduces inequality - ensuring property and wealth stay with rich via inheritance
8
Q
Smart
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personal life perspective - fam is more than blood:
- pets
- fictive kin
- friends
- dead relatives
- donor families
