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Functional Perspectives on the Family Underestimate the Amount of Strain and Exploitation within the Family Unit. Discuss.
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Functional Perspectives on the Family Underestimate the Amount of Strain and Exploitation within the Family Unit. Discuss. Functionalists ask three main questions about families: 'What are the functions of the family?' 'What are the relationships between the family and other parts of society' and 'how does the family help the individual? Functionalist perspectives on the family provide very straightforward theories, but they are often met with opposition for glorifying the role of the family and overlooking the fact that family life isn't always wonderful. Tallcott Parsons (1959) argues that the family had two main functions: Primary socialisation of children and the stabilization of adult personalities. Tallcott says that the families are like 'factories that produce human personalities'. His theory can be explain simply with the milk-bottle explanation. Babies are born as an empty milk bottle and as they grow older, members of their family fill them with ideas and values (milk)...
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