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Using material from Item B and elsewhere, assess the usefulness of functionalism for an understanding of the family
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Using material from Item B and elsewhere, assess the usefulness of functionalism for an understanding of the family The Functionalists see the family as an important and vital institution in society. They take a MACRO view and look at interdependence between the family and other organisations. Functionalists look at the positive parts to society but overlook the negatives. They emphasise on the value consensus and see the family as being universal. Other people's outlooks disagree with this view, such as the Marxists, the Marxist Feminists and the Radical Feminists. Item B describes the way in which functionalists view the functional pre-requisites or the essentials of societies if they are to survive. Functionalists' writers such as Murdock suggest that the nuclear family is such an important social institution, that it is found in some form in every single society. In other words, it is a universal institution. Murdock based his claims on...
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