family

• murdock: the functionalist sociologist who argued that the family had 4 universal functions. These 4 functions are education, sexual, reproductive and economic.
• parsons: the functionalist sociologist that argued the family had 2 universal functions. These 2 functions are adult stabilisation and primary socialisation.
• oakley: liberal feminist who argued that representations of the conventional family within society functioned as a form of social control for women by suggesting that there was an expectation for women to have children and serve as slaves to their husbands.
• delphy and leonard: radical feminist sociologists who argued that the family disadvantaged women financially. they argued that women were forced into a dual burden or double shift.
• rapaport and rapaport: functionalist sociologist who researched the different types of family diversity. they argued that 5 different types of family diversity existed, these being cultural diversity, social class diversity, life course diversity and so on.
• zaretsky: the marxist sociologist who argued that the family served three main functions for the ruling class and capitalist society, these being consumerism, economic and socialisation.
• young and willmott: the functionalist sociologists who argued that the family had become increasing symmetrical, some reasons being a change in social attitudes, secularisation, a rise in divorces and family diversity.