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Compare and contrast functionalist and Marxist explanations of the family in 'modern' Britain. In this essay I am going to be comparing and contrasting the views of two sociologists. The sociologists I am discussing are functionalists and Marxists. Functionalists are capitalists and Marxists are communist this creates different opinions of how they think the societies family functions and I am going to be assessing different areas of society in family situations like education, rearing children, domestic work, authority within a family and general opinions of how they think the family functions in modern Britain. Modern Britain is Britain after Primitive communism and the industrial revolution. Primitive communism there was no private family and when poverty was owned collectively. The community was shared and your family was the society. The industrial revolution is when there was a major shift in the economy and work was based on manual labour. The economy grew...

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