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Delphy C and Leonard D, Familiar Exploitation

-Delphy and Leonard see women working in paid employment as mainly benefiting men in the family rather than capitalism or middle class business owners
they still have to carry out the majority of household tasks such as cooking and cleaning within the ho

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Oakley A, ‘Conventional families’ in Rapoport et al. (eds), Families in Britain, London, Routledge and KeganPaul, 1982

-Writing from a feminist perspective
-Ann Oakley suggested that segregated conjugal roles adopted by men and women are part of the conventional family also known as the cereal packet family She sees this type of family as being what society and the media

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Parsons T, ‘The social structure of the family’ in Anshen R N (ed.), The Family: its Functions and Destiny,
New York, Harper and Row, 1959

-Parsons suggests that in today’s society, the family performs two functions that cannot be
performed by other institutions
-These two functions are primary socialisation and stabilisation of adult personalities.

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Willmott P and Young M, The Symmetrical Family, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1973

-functionalist perspective
-Young and Willmott used a large-scale social survey in the form of interviews of over 2500 people
in London males were interviewed and they found families were more symmetrical (equal decisions and house work)
Young and Willm

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Zaretsky E, Capitalism, the Family and Personal Life , London, Pluto Press, 1976

-Marxist perspective
-Some sociologists argue that the ‘private life’ of the family is separate from the economy (work /
production of goods).
-Zaretsky disagrees with the above point. Zaretsky believes that the family supports the economy /
capitalism.

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Ball S J, Beachside Comprehensive. A Case Study of Secondary Schooling, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 1981

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Ball S J, Bowe R and Gerwitz S, ‘Market forces and parental choice’ in Tomlinson S (ed.),
Educational Reform and its Consequences, London, IPPR/Rivers Oram Press, 1994

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Bowles S and Gintis H, Schooling in Capitalist America, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1976

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Bowles S and Gintis H, Schooling in Capitalist America, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1976

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Durkheim E, Moral Education, Glencoe, Free Press, 1925 (republished 1973)

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Halsey A H, Heath A and Ridge J M, Origins and Destinations , Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1980

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Parsons T, ‘The school class as a social system’ in Halsey et al., Education, Economy and Society,
New York, The Free Press, 1961

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Willis P, Learning to Labour, Farnborough, Saxon House, 1977

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Rapoport R and Rapoport R N, ‘British families in transition’ in Rapoport et al. (eds), Families in Britain,
London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982

-Organisational diversity how families are structured due to changes in things such as marriage or divorce
-Cultural diversity e.g. South Asian families are more likely to be patriarchal
-Cultural diversity e.g. South Asian families are more likely to be

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