Zusammenfassung der Ressource
TALLCOTT PARSON PERSPECTIVE ON
FAMILY
- PARSONS stated that there are 2 types of
family structure
- NUCLEAR
- NUCLEAR family is the MODERN
INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY
- PARSON argued that families in the MODERN INDUSTRIAL
SOCIETY has lost mnay of its functions as it has become a
UNIT OF CONSUMPTION
- This means that in MODERN SOCIETY the NUCLEAR family
has 2 essential functions
- PRIMARY SOCILIASATION
- To equip children with basic skills and
socity's values
- THE STABILISATION OF ADULT
PERSONALITIES
- FAMILY is the place where adults can relax and relieve
stress and be frefreshed to go work and become
succesful
- Tis is functional for the EFFIENCY of
the ECONOMY
- PARSON stated that the
NUCLEAR family was the
DOMINANT family type
- EXTENDED
- EXTENDED family is the PRE-INDUSTRIAL
SOCIETY
- PARSON argued that INDUSTRIAL society
has 2 essential needs which requirea
NUCLEAR FAMILY to work
- GEOGRAPHICAL MOBILE
WORKFORCE
- PARSON stated that it was easier for the
nuclear family to move than then the
extended family
- people move to where there
are jobs
- SOCIALLY MOBILE
WORKFORCE
- criticism- young and willmot said that nuclear family is no longer
dominant as parson said it was.