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| Marxist feminist.the main reason for oppression in the family is capitalim not men. women reproduce the workforce, absorb emotional stress and are a reserve force of labour leading to exploitation of women as a class. |
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| Feminist - Barret and McIntosh |
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| there is an inequality in the distribution of resources in the family. male expenditure is usually self based whereas female spending is distributed between themselves and the children, women are often seen as empoverished |
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| Feminist - Dobash & Dobash |
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| domestic violence is set off when a males authority is questioned. marriage uis said to legitimise domestic violence, it is an enevitable part of a patriarchal society. this explains the authoritys reluctance to deal with domestic violence. |
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| Feminist - Duncombe & Marsden |
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| women today have had to undergo changes in their personal lives, this transition is called the triple shift. women are expected to do the housework, the emotional work and have a career of their own. |
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| there is more symmetry in homo couples compared to hetro couples. heterosexual couples are pressured into gender roles and stereotypes. |
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| women in full time careers seem to have more equality with their significant others. wives with careers do less housework and childcare comparatively. |
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| radical feminist. all society`s are based on patriarchy at a base level.this means that men are the main oppressive force to women.thus she wants separatism between the sexes. |
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| she rejects the march of progress theory. husbands are more likely to help out with childcare as opposed to housework. this means that there is inequality in roles at home. |
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| liberal feminist. oppression in the family has slowly decreased over time. they argue that the world needs to become more equal however it still needs men and women to stay separate for society to function. |
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| there is growing diversity but changes in the nuclear family are more important. we are leaning to a neo conventional nuclear family. nuclear family are an important stage in out lifecycle |
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| Individuals are socialised into societies norms and values in a process called social solidarity. This leads to a collective conscience whereby everybody shares the same belief. they also state that Society is like the human body. If one social institution ceases to function (e.g. the Family), then society dies. |
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| society is built upon consensus and harmony. policy's are made to make family life easier. however the welfare state is wrong. |
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| the family has 4 functions: socialization, economic, reproduction and sexual which help to keep the family effective and stable. |
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| the family is a source of socialization, it stabilizes the adult personality.the nuclear family is heavily segregated and each member has a specific role, women clean and men work. |
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| social policy is a form of state power over families.social workers and goverment officials are seen as an alternate police force on the family keeping up constant pressure. |
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| all institutions benefit capitalism and capitalism dictates family structure. monogamy and inheritance stem from a primitive capitalist society. |
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| domestic violence is the result of stress on the family members due to inequality. the lower the income of a family the higher levels of stress the increased chance of conflict. |
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| family`s socialise us into the capitalist system. there is an illusion that family life and society are separate however the family is a unit of consumption of the goods society creates. |
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| New Right Theorist - Amato |
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| children growing up in lone parent family's are more at risk of crime, poverty and educational failure. these children are also more likely to grow up and have lone parent family's of their own. |
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| New Right Theorist - Benson |
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| has a conservative, anti-feminist view of society which disproves of growing diversity. nuclear family's are seen as best and lone parent family's are disproved of. |
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| New Right Theorist - Murray |
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| nuclear family's are seen as superior which is reflected in social policy. he criticizes the government for offering perverse incentives that encouraged alternate family structures. |
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| there are two types of conjugal roles, joint and segregated. segregated roles mean they are preformed seperate to one another whereas joint roles are shared between partners. |
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| Other Theorists - Gittins |
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| there are strong differences between adults and children resulting in an age patriarchy. aduts are in charge and children are dependant on them. there is acting up (acting like an adult) and acxting down (acting like a child) |
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| Other Theorists - Postman |
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| childhood as an idea is slowly disappearing. mthere is more control and less freedom coupled with more exposure to adult topics leading to a decline in innocence and the creation of a new age class known as tweenagers. childhood as an idea has only been around since the 19th century. |
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| Other Theorists - Willmott & Young |
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| they present the marh of progress idea that society is benifiting the evolution of the family. there are new symetrical family`s and we are transitioning to more equality in the division of labour. |
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| we live in a society with more secularisation and less tradition. there is a lot more choice in society and greater equality as well as individualism. |
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| Post Modernist - E. Cashmore |
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| 1 good parent is seen as better than two mediocre or aloof parents, meaning that some negative stigma attached to lone parent families is unneccesary |
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| there is no superior family structure meaning overtime family has developed due to changes in life course, feminism and changes in confluent and romantic love. |
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| Post Modernist - the rappaports |
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| we now live in a much more diverse society. there are 5 main types of family diversity: organisational, cultural, social class, life stage and generational |
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| presents the ideas of labelling due to stereotypes and self fuffiling prophecies in which we accept and live up to our labels |
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