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
- Symmetrical families
- Giddens
- Transformation of intimate relationships
- Romantic love to confluent love
- Transformation of intimate relationships
- Parsons
- 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
- Oakley
- 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
- Functionalists
- Segregated roles to joint conjugal roles
- Roles of men and women have changed over last 50 years
- 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
- Gershuny
- 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
- Feminism and domestic labour
- Gender roles in the family
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