Conjugal Roles
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- Conjugal Roles
- Labour
- Functionalist - Parsons - women do expressive (care) roles and men do instrumental (work)
- Natural to do so - biologically based
- Wilmott and Young - domestic is mainly women but M.o.P so in long term will lead to symmetrical roles
- Feminists would say it's oppressive and dis- satisfying
- Women have moved to workforce (triple shift)
- Gender-quake and media now encourage powerful females.
- Oakley said that industrialization excluded women from work and confined them to home - made dependent on men for an income
- Liberal feminists would say M.o.P but radical say that no change.
- Functionalist - Parsons - women do expressive (care) roles and men do instrumental (work)
- Emotion Work
- Duncombe - females are responsible for - found they felt an 'emotional distance' but men showed little awareness.
- Giddens (post modernist) - said pure relationships and so people are satisfied. romance is a myth.
- So joint conjugal roles are developing. People take on different roles in order to be satisfied with the relationship. A CHOICE
- Functionalist say that women choose to take care of the family (elderly) as more maternal.
- New Right say that is good for women to care as good for socialization of children
- Feminist would say that it leads to gender stereotyping (Canalization etc)
- Marxists - teach kids to accept inequality of hierarchy and capitalist society.
- Working class can't afford childcare.
- Dual Burden - Morris found unemployed men still to think that housework is female
- Decision Making
- Edgell - men make important decisions in M.C even if wives earn more
- Pahl - decisions on different matters - women made small decisions (dinner)
- Hunt - women make more decisions but not significant ones
- Hardhill - noted shift of women making big decisions.
- Vogler - looked at couples and their parents and found that pooling is higher in youth and allowance in the older
- Pooling = shared access to the income
- Untitled
- Vogler - looked at couples and their parents and found that pooling is higher in youth and allowance in the older
- New right say that women who earn less have less power in the home
- Domestic Violence
- Functionalist - domestic violence is bad but social polices stop from happening
- (Marxists) Working class men abuse women as their frustrated with their situation - only place they have power is in their homes
- Wilkinson said cause is social inequality - reduce stress
- Despite the attempt to tackle it there's still a fear
- Feminist say it's patriarchal to keep control over women
- Labour
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