Familes, Couples and Households Key Sociologists Quiz

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Who created the idea of the Nuclear Family?
Parsons
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Who supported Parson's Nuclear Familiy with evidence of the presents of Nuclear Families across 250 other cultures?
Murdock
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What did Murdock say were the 4 functions of the family?
Stable sexual relationships, Reproduction, Economic asset and Education
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Who stated that the family was set up for Capitalists to be able to legally pass on their wealth to thier 'heirs'?
Engels
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Who said that families offer 'apparent heaven' from the harshness of Capitalism but this was actually just an illusion?
Zaretsky
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What did Sullivan state?
More couples are in an equal division of labour with men doing more 'female' tasks
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In the 1950s Wilmott and Young decided that families were becoming more of a 'Partnership of Equals', acting in joint conjugal roles. What name did they give this idea?
The Symmetrical Family
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Who claimed that the Symmetrical Family was too exaggerated?
Ann Oakley
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Gershuny stated that couples who's parents had an 'equal' relationship were more likely to share the burden of housework. What was the other point he made?
The longer a wife is in paid work, the more housework the husband does
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Who stated that 'Helping once a week isn't equality'?
Ann Oakley
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What did Boulton discover?
20% of husbands had a major childcare role and wives were 30 times more likely to have done the washing up last
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Who created the term the 'Triple Shift'?
Duncombe and Marsden
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What does the Triple Shift mean?
Women take on three roles - Employment, Domestic work and Emotional work
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What did Hochschild state?
Women often take on employment with emotional work
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What theory did Morgan justify using the Triple Shift?
Women are expected to take on the emotional work
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How created the idea of 'Commercialisation of Housework'?
Silver and Schor
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What does 'Commercialisation of Housework' mean?
Goods and services are avaliable making housework easier
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What did Knusden and Waerness find through their study of 34 countries?
Women do 75% of all domestic work in the world and there are no 'developed' countries where the man does more housework than the woman
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What did Arber and Gin discover about the dual burden?
It's worse for Working-class women as they cannot afford shortcuts (e.g. tumble dryers)
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Who found that some men recognise they should do more?
Warde and Herthington
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Did Bott state that families mainly have a segregated conjugal role structure (like Parsons believe)?
Yes
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Who said that the goals of socialisation are the control impulses and conscience development, role and preformance preparation and knowing that conformity and obedience is important?
Arnett
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Who said "As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live"?
Pope John Paul II
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Who disagreed with Parsons, stating that during the industralisation period the Extended family was more common than the Nuclear family?
Anderson
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Dex and who else claimed that 78% of fathers play with their child but only 1% took the main responsibility when that child was sick?
Ward
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Ferri and Smith found that less than 4% took that main childcare responsibility, but how many couples made up this sample?
1,589
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