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Families and Households
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Sociology Mind Map on Families and Households, created by Kirby Ashenden on 19/04/2013.
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Families and Households
Conflict/Criticisms
Marxists believe that the family provides important functions for capitalism.
Engels
Need for family arose when private property started to have value
Organised inheritance system was needed
Fathers needed to pass down property
Ownership of property subjected women to unequal power relations in the home
Zaretsky
Family serves capitalism offering emotional security from the oppressive world of work
Only provides emotional warmth to encourage members to continue living another day under harsh realities of capitalism
Althusser and Poulantzas
Family seen as serving functions of an ideological state apparatus
Socialising both pro-capitalist ideology and its own familiar ideology in order to maintain such family patterns over time
Socialising members to accept gender roles and into accepting the separate roles and jobs in the home
Feminists believe that the family reinforces gender inequality and patriarchy
Marxist feminists
Family meets the needs of campitalism, maintenence of class and patriarchal inequality
Margaret Benston (1972)
nuclear family provides basic commodity required by capitalism
Labour power by reproducing
Rearing the future workforce at little cost to the capitalist class
Women are a reserved army of labour and used in time of economic growth and pushed back into the home in times of economic slow-down
Radical feminists
Kate Millet (1970)
Modern societies and families characterised by patriarchy
Family is the root to all of womens oppression and should be abolished
Can only be done by seperatism
Consensus/Positives
Functionalists see the importance of the nuclear family, universality, changing functions and how the nuclear family fits modern society
GP Murdock
Family is universal and performs 4 major functions
Socialisation of the young
Economic support
Reproduction of the next generation
Stable satisfaction of the sex drive
Talcott Parsons
2 basic and irreducible functions
Stabilisation of adult personalities
Primary socialisation
New Right theorists belueve hat the family is the cornerstone of society but is under threat
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