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Sex Roles in Parsons Family Introduction Talcott Parsons wrote the agenda for almost all the earlier post-war sociologies of the family. It is hard to find a text book on the family which does not, at some stage, give a list of the functions of the family. Consequently, an outline of Parsons' ideas concerning the family is a useful starting point for understanding the sociology of the family. You are not expected to agree with Parsons, but if you disagree make sure you can explain why you disagree. Parsons argued that: - Societies evolve as the result of functional adaptations to the problems presented by inter-relationships between (and within) systems that make up the social totality. (Functional adaptations sounds very similar to Max's idea of the dialectic - that there is something in a society that 'causes' change). - History is an evolutionary process of adaptation to problems. (Again, Marx's approach is evolutionary...

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