sociology 1
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- Created on: 11-02-23 16:34
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- Theories of the family
- Functionalist
- George Murdock - The universal nuclear family. Sexual, educational, economic, reproductive
- Pardons - Two irreducible functions of the family. 1.Primary socialisation of children. 2. Stabalisation of adult personalities.
- Family moved from a unit of production to a unit of consumption
- Due to. 1 geographical mobility. 2 socially mobile workforce. 3. loss of functions. 4 industrialisation
- The family adapts itself to meet the needs of society
- Pre-Industrial = extended and Industrial = nuclear
- Ronald Fletcher the family hasn't lost it's functions they have just been supplemented and supported = Welfare state
- Family moved from a unit of production to a unit of consumption
- Marxists
- Engles = The inheritance of private property. Monogamous nuclear family provides the answers in Capitalism
- Bourgeois nuclear family oppresses women as females primary role is to produce children and females are economically dependent on men.
- Women were seen as glorified prostitutes
- Louis Althusser = Ideological state apparatus. Capitalism control the way people think through the state (education, law and health care).
- Zaretsky's unit of consumption - work life and home life is inseparable. Useless commodities - advertising
- Engles = The inheritance of private property. Monogamous nuclear family provides the answers in Capitalism
- Feminism
- Liberal feminism
- Don't blame capitalism or men for unequal treatment but laws.
- Equal pay act 1970
- Sommerville = Women can show men the door
- Radical feminists
- Exploitation of women is due to male domination
- Dworkin = Marriage is an institution developed from **** as a practice.
- Greer = Men benefit much more from marriage than women do. Issue of mother, motherhood isn't a career option
- Marxist feminism
- Ansley = Safety valve
- Women are expected to benefit the Capitalst society
- Reproduce the next labour force
- Reserve army of labour
- Liberal feminism
- New right
- Charles Murray - The Underclass. Critical of the Welfare state. Peverse instentives
- Trying to have children at a young age to get a council house
- Charles Murray - The Underclass. Critical of the Welfare state. Peverse instentives
- Functionalist
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