family

• functionalism

  • provides functions
  • value consensus
  • social solidarity
• murdoch

  • 4 functions
  • stop promiscuity before marriage
• functionalism eval

  • behaviour is inherited not learned
• marxism

  • next generation of workers
  • 'unit of consumption'
  • consumerism for bougoisie
• marxism eval

  • patronising that people are manipulated
• feminism

  • 'triple shift'
  • dual burden
  • stereotypes women into roles
• feminism eval

  • postmodern feminists: women may want to get married not through manipulation
• postmodernism

  • family types eg nucleur
  • metanarritives
• postmodernism eval

  • no recognititon to social forces