Theorists Flashcards
Who is Chester?
- New Right
-argues the nuclear family is the dominant family - family types are part of a life cycle, people eventually end up in a nuclear family.
Who is Berthoud?
-argues Asian families are more likely than other ethnicity’s to have larger families and have more extended families.
-black women are less likely to get married.
Who is Smart?
-argues a family does not have to fit traditional norms.
-people have the freedom to make their own individual choices.
Who is Zaretsky?
- Marxist
-argues the family is seen as an escape from oppression and exploitation from work
-family changed from unit of production to unit of consumption. - family provides a “safe haven” from the effects of capitalism.
Who is parsons?
- Functionalist
-argues family has lost many of it’s functions as it has become a unit of consumption.
-family has two functions: SOCIALISATION and STABILISATION
Who is Murdock?
-Functionalist
-the nuclear family is universal
- the family has four functions:
* sexual
*reproduction
*socialisation
*economic
Who is Murray?
-New Right
-argues that society depend too much on the welfare.
-see’s the decline in traditional families as creating a dependency culture.
- loves the nuclear/traditional family.
Who are the Bourgeoise?
- Capitalists
-class of owners of the means of production e.g. factory owners.
Who are the Proletariats?
-Working class
-poorer class of non-owners
-own no means of production
-they are exploited by the bourgeoise.
Who is Palmer?
-argues toxic childhood, says technology and cultural changes cause psychological and physical damage to children.
Who is Postman?
-argues childhood is disappearing as there is more access to adult content
- print to TV.
- theory is based on that technology shapes society
Who is Donzelot?
-has a conflict view of society
-argues the government and professionals like support worker, health visitors and doctors use their knowledge to control and change families.
Who is Aries?
-see’s childhood as a social construct
-argues that childhood as we understand it today is a relatively recent “invention”.
he says that in the middle ages 10th and 13th century childhood didn’t exist
Who is Stacey?
-Post Modernist
-argues women have more freedom than ever and can escape patriarchal oppression.
-she found that women rather than men are the driving force behind changes in the family.
Who is Weeks?
-argues that the Nuclear family was considered the only legitimate family as the construction of homosexuality was seen as abdnormal.
