families and households sociologists

name the sociologist/s that did each bit of research into families and households. Last names only, following Alevel sociology spec

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functions of the family - sex, money, reproduction (sex) + socialisation	Murdock
functional fit theory, warm bath theory + irreducible functions of the family	Parsons
the preindustrial family was nuclear, not extended as functionalists suggest	Young + Willmott
family have illusion of haven from work but women face domestic servitude	Zaretsky
wives are the "takers of shit" - husbands letting out anger from exploitative work	Ansley
matrilocal all-female households should be created to replace hetrosexual ones	Greer
early society was primate communism - classless without private property	Marx
rate of family breakdown higher in cohabiting couples than married couples	Benson
men and womens roles are not fixed in biology but due to social factors	Oakly
the neo-conventional family with dual earner couple replaced nuclear family	Chester
the symmetrical family where all responsibilities are divided equally	Young + Willmott
increased choice and equality in relationships due to feminism + contraception	Giddens
postmodern families - more diverse + based on active decisions	Stacey
individualisation thesis - traditional structures in society lost influence on us	Giddens + Beck
the pure relationship - relationship exists only to satisfy each partners needs	Giddens
same sex couples are pioneers as they don't have traditional gender roles	Giddens


the negotiated family - members negotiate their roles in relationship	Beck
the zombie family - externally appear alive but is dead, an empty shell	Beck
the connectedness thesis - relationships are interconnected, affect each other	Smart
social policy is a form of state power and allows control over the family	Donzelot
new right perspective on social policy, policies should promote nuclear family	Almond
welfare benefits bad as they encourage lone parent households + dependency	Murray
gender regimes - social policy can be familistic (traditional) or individualistic	Drew
people place higher expectations on marriage + divorce if marriage is unhappy	Fletcher
living apart together couples are in committed relationships but not cohabiting	Duncan + Phillips
families separated geographically still have close bonds eg the beanpole family	Bell
state unwilling to support elderly as of no use to capitalism so female relatives do	Phillipson
paranoid parenting where parents obsessed over threats to their children	Furedi
toxic childhood - rapid cultural + technological changes have harmed children	Palmer
childhood is disappearing + children are becoming more similar to adults	Postman
childhood is socially constructed, children used to be mini adults w/out childhood	Aries
patriarchal society allows violence towards wives as they are seen as property	Dobash + Dobash