Families and Households

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What is the division of domestic labour?
the division of the work between the couples regarding childcare and housework?
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What are the traditional gender roles according to Parsons in a nuclear family?
the instrumental role: the man as the provider. The expressive role: the woman are the carer and nurturer. These are biologically determined meaning that there is a genetic reasoning to why women and men carry these certain roles in the family
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What are the criticisms of Parsons?
feminists say that they are not biologically determined and the work that women carry out benefit men. Young and Willmott argue that there is a joint conjugal role where there is a greater share of domestic labour tasks
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What two terms did Bott identify and define
Segregated conjugal role (gender roles are different and they spend leisure time apart). Joint conjugal role (genders take a greater share of tasks and they spend leisure time together)
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What type of family did Young and Willmott say are more likely to have segregated conjugal role?
extended working class families are more likely to have segregated conjugal roles as they are less educated about gender roles and they beleive in the traditional roles of genders.
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What do Young and Willmott say about the division of domestic labour?
Take the march of progress view and that there is movement towards equality. This can be seen with a rise in symmetrical families for number of reasons: women are in a better position in society, men are doing more domestic labour and couples are more lik
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What type of family did Young and Willmott beleive where more likely to be symmetrical
Young, middle class families as they were generally better educated on the subject and aimed for equality between the genders and
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the instrumental role: the man as the provider. The expressive role: the woman are the carer and nurturer. These are biologically determined meaning that there is a genetic reasoning to why women and men carry these certain roles in the family

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