Conjugal roles
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- Created on: 17-03-17 12:07
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- Conjugal roles
- Marxism
- Middle class women have more control in relationships than working class women do.
- Inequality in conjugal roles passes capitalist values onto children. They learn to accept hierarchy and exploitation.
- If working class men abuse their wives, it is a result of the exploitation and humiliation they face in employment.
- Functionalism
- Women do more domestic labour and have less power than men.
- Women are unequal due to biological differences between them.
- PARSONS- Instrumental and Expressive roles
- Women choose domestic labour over a career.
- Abuse is bad, but laws reduce it happening.
- New Right
- Women earn less money than men, therefore they have less power in thee home.
- Women do more domestic work, because they are less committed to work outside of the home.
- Women staying in the home is good for the socialisation of the children.
- Feminism
- Conjugal roles are still patriarchal, despite women having more responsibilities.
- OAKLEY- Dual Burden: women work and do all domestic labour.
- OAKLEY- Triple Shift: Women work, carry out domestic labour and take care of the emotional needs of them family.
- Some improvements to conjugal roles have happened. LIBERAL FEMINISTS.
- Children are still encouraged to live gender stereotypes due to their primary socialisation.
- No changes have occurred. Men maintain a dominant position through the threat of violence. RADICAL FEMINISTS.
- Conjugal roles are still patriarchal, despite women having more responsibilities.
- Postmodernism
- Joint conjugal roles are developing through pure relationships and confluent love.
- GIDDENS- Pure love: People are in relationships because of a mutual love for one another, not through necessity.
- People take on different roles within the family, regardless of gender, in order to maintain a mutually satisfying relationship.
- Joint conjugal roles are developing through pure relationships and confluent love.
- Marxism
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