Which one of these are not one of Murdock's four functions?
Economical functions
Reproduction of the next generation
Stable satisfaction of the sex drive of the same partner
Stabilisation of adult personalities
Which one of these did Parsons say was true?
Nuclear family was best for industrial society but extended family for pre-industrial society
Extended family best for industrial society but nuclear family for pre-industrial society
Fletcher said that the family has lost it's functions
Which TWO of these did Charles Murray say are functions the nuclear family performs that are beneficial for family and society?
Stability
Reproduction
Socialisation
Teaching children norms and values of society
What is this the definition of ... 'Men are best suited to make a living and women are meant to have children and look after them'
Biologically determined
Organic analogy
'Dependency culture' means people who become too reliant on benefits that they can no longer help it
What are the two classes that Karl Marx says there is in a capitalist society
Upper class
Working class
Capitalist class
Middle class
Karl Marx says capitalists exploit the working class
What did Engels believe in ?
Passing down of wealth
Working class should be paid more
What type of relationship did Engels think was the best?
Monogamous
Polygamy
Arranged marriage
Serial monogamy
Althusser believed in 'Ideological functions', what does this mean?
Family passes on a set of ideas to their children that justifies inequality. However, the family persuades the members that what happens in society is fair.
Family passes down the functions that they have in the family to their children and this carries on with each generation.
Zaretsky said 'Family offers haven from the outside world where you are exploited'
Which feminists say 'gender inequality is decreasing because of policies and legal changes e.g. Equal Pay Act'
Liberal
Radical
Marxist
Which feminists say 'Male domination causes women's oppression. Men benefit from the family because women do unpaid domestic tasks and free sex'
Which feminists say 'Women's oppression started with capitalism and they are a reserve army of cheap labour'