According to the structural-functional approach, the family performs many vital tasks, including socializing the young, providing financial and emotional support for its members as well as regulating/educating the importance of sexual activity/sexuality.
Like the structural-functional insight, the social conflict approach, including feminist analysis, considers the family central to our way of life. However, for the conflict theorist, the family perpetuates social inequality by handing down wealth from one generation to the next. In addition, the traditional family supports patriarchy as well as racial and ethnic inequality.
Discuss the importance and/or meaning of family from both the structural-functional and the social conflict approach.
Your response should include an historical analysis as well as the validity or lack thereof for each of these two explanations.
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