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New Right View → what (x3) & criticisms (x2)? |
Nuc Fam. best option for socialising children. Increase in cohabitation, divorce, same-sex rels and step-families → increase in crimes and anti-social behaviour Nuclear fam decline → women's sexual liberation Criticisms: roles not biologically fixed. Nuclear family is a patriarchal institution. |
Nuclear family is best. Anything else is bad. |
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Postmodernism - who (x2) & what (x4)? |
Giddens, 1992 → families have no set role → follow couple's wishes. More choice in family. Beck, 1992 → risk society. More choice = more aware of risks |
Both 1992. Risk & choice. |
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Feminist View → who (x3) and what (x7) |
Society is patriarchal. Liberal → improvements being made (Sex discrim. Act, 1975). Jenny Somerville, 2000 → disagrees with separatism. Radical → Germaine Greer, 2000 → men are enemies, must be kept separate from women (separatism) Marxist → women oppressed by capitalism. Housework socialises children into labour. Want a societal revolution. .
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JS + GG, 2000. LRM. |
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Functionalist View - who (x2), what (x4), criticisms (x5) |
Murdock, 1949 → nuclear family → reproduction, socialisation, srable satisfaction of sex drive, economic Parsons, 1955 → functional fit theory (functions affect family shape). Industrial society = nuclear. Pre-industrial society = extended. Stabilisation of adult personalities, socialisation Criticisms: marxists → nuc. fam. maintains capitalism. Feminists → nuc. fam maintains patriarchy. Is it true extended were most important pre ind.? |
M, 1949. P, 1955. |
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Marxist View → who (x2), what (x3), criticisms (x3) |
Engels, 1978 → "housework is glorified prostitution", women are "mere instruments for production of children" Zaretsky, 1976 → family being a 'haven' is false. Cannot meet each individual's needs. Family → unit of consumption → media targets kids to generate large profits. Criticisms: ignore other types of family. Feminists → ignore gender inequality. Functionalists → ignore benefits of family. |
E, 1978; Z, 1976, UOC |