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Families and HouseholdsThe nature and role of family in societyChanges in family structureRoles and relationships within the familyFamily diversity - changing family patternsDemography and the familyFamily diversity and social changeChildhoodFamilies and households are not necessairly thesame thingFunctionalistsMarxistsFeministsThe new rightPostmodernistsFamilies make up the majority of households but there areother types e.g. students or friends living together orpeople living onlyA family is a type of household where thepeople living together are related1. Nuclear family: two generations livingtogether2. Traditional extended family: three or moregenerations of the same family living together orclose by3. Attenuated extended family: nuclear families that liveapart from their extended family, but keep in regualrcontact4. Lone-parent families: a single parent andtheir dependent children5. Reconstitued families: new stepfamilies createdwhen parts of two previous families are broughttogetherFunctionalists see every institution in society as essentialto the smooth running of societyMurdock (1949)SexualReproductiveEconomicEducationalParsons (1950s)2. The family stabilises personalities through theemotional relationship between the parents1. Primary socialisationSome say that the functionalistsignore the negative aspects of familylife1. Morgan (1975) points out that Murdockmakes no reference to the alternativehousehold or to problems within a family2. Since the 60s there's beenwidespread criticism thatneither Murdock nor Parsons lookat issues of conflict, class orviolence3, The fact that functionalists overlook negativeaspects of the family life makes their position lookweak1. Engels (1884) - economic function2. Zaretsky (1976) - the proletariat have power and control but whenthe working man gets home he has power,, relieving some frustionworkers have about their low status3. In a capitalist society, a women's role is 'hosuewife' whichmakes them more productive4. The family househild is a untiwith the desire to buy the goodsproduced by capitalistindustryThe marxist view is criticised for being toonegativeFocused entirely on benefits to theeconomy and benefits to the workingman's bossAssumes that the workeris maleNo explanation for why the family flourishesin a non-capitalist or communist socities3 main viewpointsMarxist feminismSee the explotation of womenas essential for the success ofcapitalismRadical feminisimHighlights housework as an area ofexplotation of women BUT don't seethis as a fault of the capitalist systemDomination of men in society. Menwill always oppress womenLiberal feminisimEmphasise the cultural nors and values which arereinforced by the family. The family is only sexistsbecause it supports mainstream culture1. Based on the idea that the traditional nuclearfamily and its values are best for society2. Social policies haveundermined the family3. Charles Murray (1989)says that welfare benefitsare too high and create a'culture of dependency'4. Particularly concerned aboutthe welfare benefits to singlemothers5. The increase in lone-parent and stepfamilies and easier access to divorce has led toa breakdown in traditional valuesNew right has been criticised for'blaming the victim'Say diversity in familystructure is a good thing1. Much wder range of living options2. Judith Stacey (1990) says that there is such adiversity that there'll never be one dominant type offamily in Western culture again3. Key thing is the idea that contemporary living is soflexible that one individual can experiences lots ofdifferent types of family in one life timePostmodern theory questions whether this movement through different types of family is all that typical.O'Brien and Jones (1996) concluded that there was less avriety then Stacey thought and most people onlyactually experience one or two types of famiyl in their lifetimeDouble click this nodeto edit the textClick and drag this buttonto create a new node