What’s on the What Families Do poster
Functionalist against Critical replies, side by side.
- Functionalist: Primary socialisation of the young
- Functionalist: Stabilisation of adult personality
- Functionalist: Regulation of sexual behaviour
- Functionalist: Economic support and consumption
- Functionalist: Parsons: functions shed to other bodies
- Critical replies: Marxist: reproduces labour at no cost
- Critical replies: Feminist: unpaid care falls to women
- Critical replies: Ignores abuse and violence within it
- Critical replies: Assumes one form fits every household
- Critical replies: Interactionist: negotiated, not fixed
- Functions can be real and unequally distributed. Naming a function does not establish…
Educational reference. Radical psychiatry's claim that the family causes serious mental illness has not held up empirically.
Questions about the What Families Do poster
- What’s on the What Families Do poster?
- Functionalist against Critical replies, side by side. Functionalist: Primary socialisation of the young; Functionalist: Stabilisation of adult personality; Functionalist: Regulation of sexual behaviour; Functionalist: Economic support and consumption; Functionalist: Parsons: functions shed to other bodies; Critical replies: Marxist: reproduces labour at no cost; Critical replies: Feminist: unpaid care falls to women; Critical replies: Ignores abuse and violence within it; Critical replies: Assumes one form fits every household; Critical replies: Interactionist: negotiated, not fixed; Functions can be real and unequally distributed. Naming a function does not establish…. Educational reference. Radical psychiatry's claim that the family causes serious mental illness has not held up empirically.
- Who is the What Families Do poster for?
- What Families Do belongs to the Sociology section rather than to a school year, because law & society is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning family & education can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the What Families Do poster?
- When an institution is defended by listing the needs it is said to meet. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so What Families Do belongs on the wall where that law & society work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with What Families Do?
- Childhood as a Construct, Credentials & Screening and Cultural Reproduction sit alongside What Families Do in the Sociology section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Childhood as a ConstructCredentials & ScreeningCultural Reproduction
- Is the What Families Do poster free to download and print?
- Yes. What Families Do downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Sociology section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the What Families Do poster print at?
- What Families Do is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of What Families Do loses nothing.Printing guide
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