Families & Households sociologists

Functionalist view on families

George Murdock (1949)

Family gives primary socialization and stabilization of adult personalities

Talcott Parsons (1951)

Warm bath theory results in women being the takers of shit

Marxist feminists Fran Ansley

Family has a clear economic function for capitalism ensuring wealth was with the bourgeoisie due to inheritance

Engels (1884)

Warm bath theory makes working class men take anger out on wives and remain the boss to keep them working as they have an outlet ties with Ansley

Zaretsky (1976)

welfare policies have undermined the nuclear family and given incentive for people o become single parents, dependency culture

Charles Murray (1998)

New right is not sociological but political justification for capitalism

Marxists

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