Thursday 22 January 2009

Talcott Parsons

Talcott Parsons in the last century developed the model of nuclear family from functionalists' point of view. He was talking about gender roles in the family and how they differ.He said  that women's role in the family is that they should take sare of other members of the family and also strenghten relations among them whereas men should have an instrumental role in the family such as earning money for it. He also said that as if many actions are tend to be expected it can help to avoid conflicts.

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