Gender roles, Domestic labour and power relationships

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  • Created on: 05-04-22 12:40
What is the division of labour
Biological differences - women naturally nurture and men work
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Who takes the instrumental role and what is it
Husband does - achieving success at work so can financially provide for the family. Known as breadwinner
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Who takes the expressive role and what is it
Wife does - primary socialisation of children and meetings the families emotional needs. Known as homemaker
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Who spoke about joint and segregated conjugal roles and what are they
Bott (1957)
Segregated - couples have separate roles and leisure time
Joint - couples share tasks and leisure time together
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What is the symmetrical family
Husband and wife's roles are not identical but are very similar.
Both spouses work for wages and share domestic labour equally
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What is a beanpole family?
Is a multigenerational extended family
(Meaning there are many different generations with only a few siblings in each generations)
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What is a matrifocal family?
Concept referring to households that consist of one or more adult women and their children without the presence of fathers
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What is a househusband?
A married man who manages the household as his main occupation and those whose spouse usually earns the family income
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Why do feminist sociologists reject the 'march of progress' view
They argue that little has changed and women remain still doing most of the housework.
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What do Jean Duncombe and Dennis Marsden argue?
That women have to perform a 'triple shift' of housework, paid work and emotion work
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Why is divorce a reason for changing family patterns
Because it increases lone parent families and single person households
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What are 3 reasons for divorce
- Secularisation (decline in religion)
- High expectations of marriage
- Increase in independence
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Who did a study on girls attitudes changing
Sharpe
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What is the cereal packet family
and is it a func. or marx concept?
ideal version of the family is the nuclear family including the mother, father and 2 children
func. concept
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Why cant cereal packet family concept be used now?
Because it ignores that families have changed in structure and diversity since then.
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