familes and households: couples

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parsons: instrumental and expressive roles
husband has an instrumental role meaning he provides for the family financially (breadwinner). the wife has the expressive role in which she looks after the house and children (homemaker)
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parsons: division of labour
he believes that the division of labour is biological, with women naturally suited to the nurturing role and men to that of provider. its beneficial to men, women, their children and wider society
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parsons: critique (young and wilmott)
young and wilmott say that men are taking a greater share of domestic tasks and more women are becoming wage earners.
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parsons: critique (feminists)
feminists say that divison of labour is natural and it only benefits men.
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bott: joint and segregated conjugal roles
segregated conjugal roles is where the couples have seperate roles eg a male breadwinner and a female homemaker. joint conjugal roles is where couples share tasks such as housework and childcare and spend their leisure time together
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young and wilmott: patterns of segregated conjugal roles
in the 1950's, young and wilmott identified a pattern of segregated conjugal roles in a study of traditional working class extended families in Bethnal green (london)
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young and wilmott: march of progress
family lfe is gradually imporving for all members, as it becomes more equal and democratic. trend away from segregated conjugal roles towards joint conjugal roles and the symmetrical family.
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young and wilmott: march of progress/ symmetrical family
roles are shared between men and women however not identical. women are now going to work, more so part time, men help with childcare and couples spend leisure together
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young and wilmott: march of progress/ symmetrical family (major social changes)
they see the rise of the symmetrical family as a result of major social changes: changes in womens position (paid work), geoghical mobility (couples living away from hometown), new tech (labour saving devices), higher standards of living (more income
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feminist view of housework: young and wilmott (critique/oakley)
feminist sociologists reject this view. oakley states that their claims are exaggerated. they said that small things like taking the rubbish out once a week was helping. men cherry picked and did the more favourable tasks such as taking the kids out
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feminist view of housework: young and wilmott (critique/boulton)
she found that less than 20% of husbands had a major role in childcare. this supports oakleys idea of exaggeration
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impact of paid work
with women now working, is it leading to a more equal division of domestic tasks, with a new man taking responsiblity and doing an equal share of housework and childcare or does it mean women take on a dual burden (domestic and paid work)
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the march of progress view: gershuny and sullivan
gershuny argues that women wokring full time is leading to a more equal division of labour. sullivan sees a trend towards women doing a smaller share of domestic work and men doing more
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he believes that the division of labour is biological, with women naturally suited to the nurturing role and men to that of provider. its beneficial to men, women, their children and wider society

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parsons: division of labour

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young and wilmott say that men are taking a greater share of domestic tasks and more women are becoming wage earners.

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feminists say that divison of labour is natural and it only benefits men.

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segregated conjugal roles is where the couples have seperate roles eg a male breadwinner and a female homemaker. joint conjugal roles is where couples share tasks such as housework and childcare and spend their leisure time together

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