couples
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- Topic 1- Couples
- The domestic division of labour
- Refers to the roles that men and women play in relation to housework, childcare, and paid work
- Parsons: Instrumental and expressive roles
- In Talcott Parson(1955) functionalist model of the family there is a clear division of labour between spouses
- The husband has an instrumental role. He is the breadwinner.
- The wife has an expressive role. The caring, nurturing role.
- Claims that the division of labour is beneficial for both men an women, children and wider society.
- Joint and segregated roles
- Elizabeth Bott(1975) Distinguished between two types of conjugal roles; That is, roles within the family
- Segregated conjugal roles, where the couple have separate roles
- Joint conjugal roles, where the couples share tasks, such as housework and childcare.
- Elizabeth Bott(1975) Distinguished between two types of conjugal roles; That is, roles within the family
- The symmetrical family
- Young and Willmott(1973) take a 'march of progress' view of the history of the family
- Young and Willmott see the rise of the symmetrical nuclearfamily as the result of major social changes over the past century
- Changes in women's position- including married women going out to work
- Geographical mobility- More couples living away from the communities in which they grew up
- New technology and labour-saving devices
- Higher standards of living
- Young and Willmott see the rise of the symmetrical nuclearfamily as the result of major social changes over the past century
- Young and Willmott(1973) take a 'march of progress' view of the history of the family
- A feminist view of housework
- Feminist sociologists reject this 'march of progresss' view.
- Oakley: Rise of the housewife role
- Ann Oakley(1974) criticises Young and Willmotts view that the family is now symmetrical
- Rather than seeing a march of progress towards symmetry, Oakley describes how the housewife role has become the dominant role for married women
- The Impact of paid work
- Gershuny: The trend towards equality
- Gershuny 91994) found that wives who worked full-time did less domestic work
- Argues that social values are gradually adapting to the fact that women are now working full time
- Rosemary Crompton (1997) accepts Gershunys evidence. She explains the trend in terms of economic factors rather than changing values or role models
- Gershuny 91994) found that wives who worked full-time did less domestic work
- The commercialisation of housework
- Silevr(1987) and schor(1993) stress the importance of two major economic developments reducing he burden of housework on women
- Housework has become more commercialised
- Women working means that they can afford to buy these goods and services
- Silevr(1987) and schor(1993) stress the importance of two major economic developments reducing he burden of housework on women
- Emotion work
- Emotion work describes work whose main features is management of ones won and other peoples emotions
- Hoschild(1983) Used the term to describe jobs such as airline stewardness
- Emotion work describes work whose main features is management of ones won and other peoples emotions
- The Dual burden
- Feminists argue that women have simply taken a dual burden of both paid work and unpaid housework
- Ferri and smith(19960 Found that increased employment of women outside the home has had little impact on the domestic division of labour
- Lesbian couples and gender scripts
- Gershuny: The trend towards equality
- The domestic division of labour
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