Functionalists

• Murdock's 4 functions


  1 - stable satisfaction of sex drive

  2 - reproduction

  3 - socialisation of the young

  4 - meeting economic needs
• Parsons' functional fit theory


  Functions of family depends of the society

  extended family = pre-industrial society

  nuclear family = industrial society

  Industrial society requires a geographically and socially mobile workforce
• Parsons' 2 functions of the family

  1 - primary socialisation of the young

  2 - stabilisation of adult personalities