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  • couples part 1
    • the domestic division of labour
      • PARSONS: instrumental and expressive roles               (functionalist model of the family)
        • in the family, the roles of husbands and wives are segregated- separate and distinct from one another.
    • Joint and Segregated Conjugal Roles (ELIZABETH BOTT 1957)
      • Segregated conjugal roles, where the couple have separate roles. male breadwinner and female homemaker. their leisure activities also tend to be separate.
      • Joint conjugal roles- where the couple share tasks such as housework and childcare and spend their leisure time together.
      • Young and Willmott identified a pattern of segregated conjugal roles in their study of traditional working-class extended families in bethnal green, east london, in the 1950's.
    • the symmetrical family
      • young and willmott (1973) take a 'march of progress' view of the history of the family. they argue there has been a long term trend away from segregated conjugal roles and towards conjugal roles, or 'the symmetrical family'
      • women now go out to work, men now help with housework and childcare, couples now spend their leisure time together instead of separate
      • caused by
        • changes in womens position, including married women going out to work
        • geographical mobility- more couples living far away from the communities in which they grew up
        • new technology and labour saving devices
        • higher standards of living
        • many of these factors are interlinked- e.g. married women bringing a second wage into the home raises the standard of living + the middle class can afford labour saving devies.

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