FAMILY

The Functionalist and Marxist Views Of the Family

[Institute's Name]The Functionalist and Marxist Views Of the Family

Introduction

Every phenomenon needs to be in proper symmetry, so that the practicality and proper working of this world will find its real face. Without any proper cohesion among the varying elements of the world or society, the sound existence of the society is prone to disintegration, and amongst those vital elements is the element of family.

The Functionalist View of Family

The primary proponents of the functionalist view of the family are Fletcher, Parsons, and Murdock. The proponents of the functionalists approach perceive families to be beneficial and imperative component for the society. It is the element of the nuclear families, which is believed to be rather assistive and valuable. The functions that are rendered by the nuclear families, in return tend to be rather assistive in the sound being of the society, and these functions include the economic assistance, reproduction and the principal socialisation.

The Marxist View of Family

With respect to the Marxist view of family, the superficial image that is rendered by this institute is no where closer to what it actually entails. This approach propagates that the primary functions of the family do not reside at rendering cohesion, protection, harmony and integration to the members; in fact, it is yet another institutes that furnishes the platform for further exploitation for rendering benefits and fulfilling the needs of the capitalist system (Babbie, 1998, P. 87).

Furthermore, it propagates that the emergence of this institutes was paved way for the worldly needs of the capitalist system, such as the requirement of fatherhood, among the bourgeois. Moreover, family is also believed to be imperative to render its functions for the reproduction of the labour force in this system. The family also serves the economic purposes, the ...