Family-Politics-Democracy.

A great deal of research and discussion has been done on the role of the family in  society. The role of the family has tended to look at gender socialisation. More information gender socialisation can be accessed as an MP3 book . Gender socialisation has been rejected by feminists as aclaimed by functionalists. Feminists claim that gender socialisation  meant that many parents socialized their daughters to show dependence, obedience, conformity and domesticity whereas boys were encouraged to be dominant, competitive and self -reliant and also that when young children saw their parents acting out traditional gender roles they would perceive these roles as natural and inevitable. For example within the nuclear family gender differences in socialisation continue in schools as teachers praised girls for “feminine qualities” and boys for “masculine qualities”. In addition to this boys and girls are encouraged to opt for traditional male and female subjects and then for traditional male and female careers. there are lots of Scholary books on why gender matters and some easy read books are available as download audio books which one can access either at their home or whilst travelling. 

In line with the above feminists argue that the socialisation process operating within the nuclear family encourages females to accept the traditional gender roles which entrenched female disadvantage in the private domestic sphere and in the public sphere of employment, political and social life. These gender roles which are socially constructed rather than being biologically determined have since and are still being changed via political, legislative, economic initiatives for example the Equal Opportunity Act 2010 [audio books download] provides a new cross-cutting legislative framework to protect the rights of individuals and advance equality of opportunity for all.

The nuclear family is bad for its members, and this is evidence from information available from MP3 books which books give proper sanalysis of of gender roles within the nuclear family. In relation to gender roles feminists have rejected both functionalist analyses of gender roles inside and outside the family and the claims by Young and Willmott (1973) that nuclear families were becoming increasingly symmetrical on the grounds that men and women did not necessarily possess instrumental and expressive qualities respectively as had been suggested by Parsons (1955) and that responsibilities for housework and childcare were shared unfairly leading to the conclusion that the nuclear family is bad for its members.