Families and households - Couples

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Parsons instrumental and expressive roles
Parsons argued DOL is based on biological differences, women more naturally suited to nurturing role.
Husband has instrumental role, geared toward achieving success at work, provides for family financially.
Wife has expressive role, geared towards sociali
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Joint and segregated conjugal roles
Elizabeth Bott (1957) - Two types of conjugal roles; Segregated - Couple has separate roles, breadwinner and homemaker. Leisure roles are separate
Joint - Couples share tasks, spend leisure time together
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Symmetrical family
Young and Willmott (1973) - March of progress view, see family as generally improving for all, by symmetrical they mean the roles of men and women are more similar but not identical. i.e men help with housework, women go to work, couples spend leisure tim
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The impact of paid work - Irrelevant
Today many more wives go to out to work, this
raises two questions;
Is it leading to a more equal division of domestic tasks with a more equal share of housework and childcare?
Or does it simply mean that women now have to carry a dual burden of paid w
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March of progress views
Gershuny (1994) - Argues women working full-time has lead to more equal DOL, found these women did less work at home then others
Sullivan (2000) - Showed increase in number of couples with an equal DOL, more men participating in women like tasks
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Feminist view
For feminists, women going to work has not led to greater equality. Still little sign of 'new man'. Social attitudes survey - Men 8 hours per week, women 13 hours, women more likely to care for family members and do laundry, men more likely to do small r
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Taking responsibility for children
Boulton (1983) - Points out mother normally takes care of child's security and security no matter what father does. Supported by: Ferri and Smith (1996) - Fathers care for child in less than 4% of families, Dex and Ward (2007) - Fathers took responsibilit
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Taking responsibility for quality time
Southerton (2011) - Managing quality time normally falls on mother. As well as mothers leisure time is broken up by childcare, fathers leisure time is prolonged and uninterpreted.
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Cultural explanation for gender division
View that DOL is determined by patriarchal norms, and values, do more domestic labour because its accepted by society. Gershuny (1994) - couples whose parents had equal roles are more likely to have equal relationship, Kan (2001) - Younger men do more w
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Material explanations for gender division
View that women earn less so it is economically rational for women to do more housework. Kan found for every £10,000 more they earn, they do 2 hours less housework, Arber and Ginn (1995) - Found middle-class women buy help with childcare and domestic work
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Money management
Pahl and Vogler (1993) - Identify two types of control over family income: The allowance system, men give wife budget to meet family's needs with men retaining surplus funding, pooling, both partners have access to funding and joint responsibility for exp
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Decision making
Edgell's (1980) Very important decisions - Taken by husband alone or jointly but mainly husband. Important decisions - Usually taken by mother or together. Less important decisions - Usually taken by wife, Pahl and Vogler (2007) - Found even in pooling me
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Personal life perspective on money
Focuses on meanings couples give to who controls money. Smart (2007) - Gay and lesbian couples don't care about who controls money. Weeks et al (2001) - Found pooling for household spending and separate accounts for personal spending was the norm.
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Domestic violence
Domestic violence is too far widespread to be a few individuals. Domestic violence does not occur randomly but follows social patterns.
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Feminist explanation for domestic violence
Widespread domestic violence is inevitable feature of patriarchal society, serves to preserve power all men have over women, helps explain why most domestic violence is by men. Give sociological rather than psychological explanation.
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Material explanation
Wilkinson and Pickett (2010) - See domestic violence as result of stress on family members caused by social inequality, meaning some families have fewer resources, worries about money, jobs or housing may become domestic conflict, lack of money and time r
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Elizabeth Bott (1957) - Two types of conjugal roles; Segregated - Couple has separate roles, breadwinner and homemaker. Leisure roles are separate
Joint - Couples share tasks, spend leisure time together

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Joint and segregated conjugal roles

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Young and Willmott (1973) - March of progress view, see family as generally improving for all, by symmetrical they mean the roles of men and women are more similar but not identical. i.e men help with housework, women go to work, couples spend leisure tim

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Today many more wives go to out to work, this
raises two questions;
Is it leading to a more equal division of domestic tasks with a more equal share of housework and childcare?
Or does it simply mean that women now have to carry a dual burden of paid w

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Gershuny (1994) - Argues women working full-time has lead to more equal DOL, found these women did less work at home then others
Sullivan (2000) - Showed increase in number of couples with an equal DOL, more men participating in women like tasks

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