1. Sociology as a Tool to Understand Society
... to live became to be the nuclear family. Functionalism directly supports this traditionalist approach, including heterosexual marriage and specific gender roles within the household, including instrumental roles for men and expressive roles for women. Murdock (1949) presented the family structure as culturally universal, with four key elements all tending to requirements in which individuals need to survive in society. ... to take an extended form in households with patriarchal men leading the family. This links with Marx's theory of the 'chain of inheritance' within families, as ...
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