Roles and relationships within families and households

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  • Roles and relationships within families and households
    • Gender roles in the family
      • Roles of men and women have changed over last 50 years
        • Segregated roles to joint conjugal roles
          • Functionalists
            • Parsons
              • Male - instrumental leader. Women - nurturer and carer
              • Biologically suited to different roles
            • Young and willmott
              • Symmetrical families
                • Family is privatised
                • Family is nuclear
                • Joint conjugal roles
            • Giddens
              • Transformation of intimate relationships
                • Romantic love to confluent love
          • Feminism
            • Oakley
              • House wife role still main role for women
            • Radical feminists
              • Roles of the family reflects the patriarchal nature of the family
            • Marxist feminists
              • Unpaid work benefits men and capitalism
          • Marxism
            • Shaped by the needs of capitalism
            • Unpaid labour performed by women benefit capitalist system.
          • Postmodernism
            • Impossible to state that families are patriarchal
            • Families base roles on there needs
            • Focus on perspectives that focus on the nuclear family
    • Domestic division of labour
      • Feminism and domestic labour
        • Working women often paid less than men
        • Often perform the unpaid domestic roles as well as working
      • British social attitudes survey 2012
        • Men spend an avewrage of 8 hours doing domestic labour
        • women spend an average of 13 hours
      • Time budget research
        • Gershuny
          • measure time men and women spent on domestic labour
      • Hakim
        • Alternative perspective on the division of labour
        • Criticised feminists for claiming that men never do anything
      • Domestic divisions of labor and family diversity
        • Social class
        • Ethnicity
        • Sexuality
        • Age and life course

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