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Delphy and Leonard
Writing from a feminist perspective ,Delphy and Leonard emphasise the importance of work. In their view it is men, rather than capitalists as such, who are the prime beneficiaries of the exploitation of women’s labour.
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Delphy and Leonard part 2
They believe that the family has a central role in maintaining patriarchy; the family is an economic system involving a particular set of labour relations in which men benefit from and exploit the work of women.
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Oakley
Writing from a feminist perspective, Oakley did an unstructured interview on housework. 70% of women were dissatisfied and those women had a low level of social interaction. Double burden. More women working, but also having to spend more time on ho
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Parsons
Writing from a functionalist perspective, Parsons believed that the family performs 2 functions: primary socialisation and stabilisation of adult personality- relieves stresses of modern day living, linking to warm bath theory.
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Rapoports
Rapoports say that there is now a lot of family diversity. They identify 5 types, organisation diversity, cultural diversity, social class diversity, life cycle diversity and family life course diversity.
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Willmott and Young
Writing from a functionalist perspective and focus on the symmetrical family. 1. pre-industrail ( family is unit of production) 2. Early industrial ( family support) 3. symmetrical family ( sharing chores, home centred) - feminist criticised
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Willmott and Young part 2
4. stratified ( move back to separated roles and lifestyles will filter down). This would all be due to: smaller families so fewer children, improved standard of living, commercialisation of housework, improved women status and geographical mobility.
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Zaretsky
Writing from marxists perspective, Zaretsky blames conjugal roles on capitalisms and says the family provides unpaid labour, reproducing the labour force and being a unit of consumption. Family cushions the effect of capitalism-expressing frustration
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Chester
Belived that there has not been much change in recent times and that most people will still live in nuclear families. This is due to: changes in law, social attitudes, work, secularisation and immigration.
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Zaretsky
Writing from marxists perspective, Zaretsky sees the family as having 4 functions: unit of consumption, private property, primary socialisation and unpaid labour. Family is seen to help preserve capitalism.
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They believe that the family has a central role in maintaining patriarchy; the family is an economic system involving a particular set of labour relations in which men benefit from and exploit the work of women.

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Delphy and Leonard part 2

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Writing from a feminist perspective, Oakley did an unstructured interview on housework. 70% of women were dissatisfied and those women had a low level of social interaction. Double burden. More women working, but also having to spend more time on ho

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Writing from a functionalist perspective, Parsons believed that the family performs 2 functions: primary socialisation and stabilisation of adult personality- relieves stresses of modern day living, linking to warm bath theory.

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Card 5

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Rapoports say that there is now a lot of family diversity. They identify 5 types, organisation diversity, cultural diversity, social class diversity, life cycle diversity and family life course diversity.

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