The way that jobs and roles are shared between men and women in the home
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What does Parsons argue?
The husband performs the instrumental role as the breadwinner and the wife performs the expressive role as the homemaker. The division of labour is based on biologically differences
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What does Bott argue?
Segregated Conjugal Roles: The couple have separate roles with separate leisure activities. Joint Conjugal Roles: The couple share tasks and spend leisure time together
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What did Young and Willmott find in their study of Bethnal Green?
In the 1950s, there were more segregated conjugal roles while in the 1970s there was a move towards symmetrical families with joint conjugal roles
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What four suggestions do Young and Willmott put forward to explain the change in family structure?
Changing position of women, greater geographical mobility, new technology and more disposable income
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How does Oakley criticise Young and Willmott?
They had a badly worded question. She found that only 15% of husbands had a high level of participation in housework and 25% in childcare
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What did Gershuny find?
Wives who worked full time did less domestic work than those who part part time as they received more support from their husband. Couples who's parents had an equal relationship were more likely to have one too.
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What is Ferri and Smith's dual burden?
The family is patriarchal because they do both paid work and housework
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What is Dunscombe and Marsden's triple shift?
Women perform emotional work as well as housework and paid work
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Explain Dunne's cultural explanation of the division of labour
Lesbian couples have a more symmetrical relationship due to the absence of the traditional heterosexual gender scripts
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Explain Man Yee Kan's material explanation of the division of labour
For every £10,000 a year a woman earns, she does two hours less housework per week
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What do Paul and Vogler argue?
There are two main types of control over family income. Allowance System: Wives are given a budget to run the household. Pooling: Both partners have joint access to income
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What are Edgell's different levels of decision making?
Very Important Decision Making: Financial, taken by the husband. Important Decisions: Education, taken jointly. Less Important Decisions: Food purchases, taken by the mother
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What is the personal life perspective of money?
PLP focuses on the meanings couples give to who controls money. Smart found same-sex couples give a different meaning to money, attaching no importance to who controls it.
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What do Dobash and Dobash argue?
Violent incidents can be set off by what a husband saw as a challenge to his authority. Marriage legitimates violence against women by conferring power and authority on husbands and dependency on wives/
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What are the Crime Survey statistics for domestic violence?
7.3% of women and 5% of men reported having experienced domestic abuse in 2012
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What does Cheal argue?
The family is a private sphere so access to it by the state should be limited. The family is perceived as positive so the police neglect to look at the darker side. It is assumed women are free to leave, however they do not have the money
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What are the radical feminists explanation of domestic violence?
Marriage is the main source of women's oppression. Men dominate women through domestic violence and this is an inevitable feature of poverty.
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What are Webb et al's material explanations of domestic abuse?
Economic factors: Inequality in income and housing cause more stress and increases the threat of violence. Men take work stress out on females.
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Card 2
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What does Parsons argue?
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The husband performs the instrumental role as the breadwinner and the wife performs the expressive role as the homemaker. The division of labour is based on biologically differences
Card 3
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What does Bott argue?
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Card 4
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What did Young and Willmott find in their study of Bethnal Green?
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Card 5
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What four suggestions do Young and Willmott put forward to explain the change in family structure?
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