Wilmott and Young - March of Progress - Flashcards in A Level and IB Sociology

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Section 1
What is the pre industrial family?

family that works as a unit of economic production
no seperation between work and family
family all live close

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Section 2
What is the early industrial family?

families move into cities
home and work are now seperate
extended families are broken up
females bond at home
men now work and spend time at the pub

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Section 3
What is the symmetrical family?

modern nucleur family
less gender divide
family is now a unit of consumption
families are smaller
joint conjugal roles

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Section 4
What is the asymmetrical family?

would become men spending their lesiure time outside the home without their partners

stratified division - cultural changes in family life began among higher social status and their practises diffused down the social strata becoming the norm
(not much

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what are some of the evaluations made?

not all people change their traditional views
there is a gender pay gap
feminists see the family as patriarchal

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what are some of the statistics from Perez 2019, disagreeing with Wilmott and Young?

42% of women compared to 11% of men work part time
women make up 75% of part time workers
part time work is paid less per hour than full time work
women make up 61% of those earning below the living wage

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what did Oakley 1970s say about the march of progress?

He found no evidence of symmetry in the family as Young and Wilmott had claimed - all men did is iron shirts etc

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what did Boulten 1983 say about the march of progress?

he claims that we need to look at who is responsible for what tasks - women are predominately carers and caregivers

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what do women carry?

a dual burden -
they do both paid and domestic work so all they do is "work"

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what did Duncombe and Marsden say to do with the march of progress?

'the triple shift' - emotion, work, domestic labour and paid work

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What is the early industrial family?

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families move into cities
home and work are now seperate
extended families are broken up
females bond at home
men now work and spend time at the pub

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Section 3
What is the symmetrical family?

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Section 4
What is the asymmetrical family?

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what are some of the evaluations made?

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