families sociologists

• murdock - 4 main functions of the family - sexual - reproductive - educational - economic
• parsons - soap and primary socilisation
• parsons - classic extended family has been replaced largely by privitised nuclear family
• murray - disapproves of lone parent families and welfare given to them
• engles - nuclear family is used to pass on wealth
• althusser - family is an ideological state apparatus
• zaretsky - the family plays an ideological role in propping up capitalism
• greer - relationships between men and women remain exploitatitive
• delphy and leonard - women are exploited in the family through unpaid labour
• beck gernstein - traditional family structures are disinteregrating and being replaced by a wide diversity of relationships
• giddens -pure relationships
• smart - individualisation thesis exaggerates the decline of the family
• fletcher - divorce rate has risen due to rusing expectations
• goode - seculirisation means marraige is less sacred
• murray - increase in lone aprent due to benefits
• young and wilmott - symmetrical families
• oakley - 71% of women are unhappy
• duncombe and marsden - triple shift
• edgell - women have control over unimportant decisions
• pahl - finacial sharing was moving from allowances to pooling
• dobash and dobash - violence against women
• aries - children as mini adults
• bhatti - asian girls are more strictly controlled by their parents
• palmer - toxic childhood
• postman - diappearance of childhood
• freudi - paranpid parenting
• gittens - age patriarchy
• hackney and james - childhood is an opressive state they wish to escape
• chambers - globalisation has led to the rise in the purchase of intimacy
• sharpe - changing positions of women
• bott - seggregated and joint conjugal roles
• warde and heatherington - sex typing is still present
• punch - children in bolivia work from age 5
• jenks - parents values relationships with parents more
• yearshire - 35 incidents of dv before reporting
• chester - neoconventional family
• coast - 75% of cohabitants want to marry
• rappoport and rappoport - clogs
• beck - zombie families
• stacey - women in silicone valley