couples

Question 1

parsons gender roles

Answer 1

there is a clear division between men and womens gender roles
men play the instumetnal role of going to work and getting the money
women play the expressive role ofbeing the pimary socialisers
as women are ‘natrually socialised into the rile’

Question 2

criticisms of parsons expressive and conjugal roles

Answer 2

young and willmott argue that men are now taking a greater share of domestic tasks and women are become wage earners

SYMMETRICAL FAMILY

BSA survey 2013 only 12% men believed that men and women should have seperate roles

Question 3

bott conjugal roles

Answer 3

two types of roles within a marriage

• segregated conjugal roles couples have distinctly separate roles
• joint roles couples share house and childcare

Question 4

young and Wilmott symmetrical family

Answer 4

march of progress of the domestic dividion of labourwhere men and women’s roles are becoming more similar becuase

• womens position in the workplace is changing
• more men taking up paternaty leave ect.

Question 5

evidence of symmetrical family

Answer 5

british social attitudes survey

2013 only 12% of men believed in having seperate roles as parsons descibed

Question 6

feminist view on housework

Answer 6

anne oakley found that 15% of husbands have an active roles in housework and 25% in childcare

• husbands only want to help in childrens pleasurable aspects such as taking children to park to allow mother to get on with housework

Question 7

dual burden and tripple shift

Answer 7

oakley: increase mothers and owme working has lead to rise in dual burden women now have to do instumental and expressive role
- women have to perform tripple shift of housework

Question 8

cultural explaination of the gender division of labour

Answer 8

crompton- divsion is determined by patriarchal norms and values that shape gender roles in our culture

this will only change when women and mens norms and roles are changed

there has been a generational shift in younger men doing more housework than their dads did but still not equal

Question 9

material explanation of division of labour

Answer 9

crompton- women genrally work less than men so its economically traditional for women to do more childcare andhousework while men make money

this will even out when women join labour force

kan- for every 10,000 a year more a woman earns, she does two hours less of housework a week

Question 10

persectives on decisions making

Answer 10

hardill- 30 dual career proffesional couples found that the most important deicions made were usually taken by the man
edgell found that men take control of important financial decisions

Question 11

evidence against hardills finding on decision making in couples

Answer 11

gershuny found that in 1995 70% cuples said they had an equal power when decisions making

Question 12

phal on money in couples

Answer 12

two ways of money distubutionincuples were pooling and allowances.
couples who had a more equal relationship were found to pool their money

Question 13

plp on money

Answer 13

smart argues that we should focus on the meaning the couples place upon money.
one couple may see a man having control as inequality whilse another couple may not agree

ex gay and lesibans attach no importance to who controled money due to not having traditional gender roles

Question 14

what issues are there with the idea that the perpertators are deeply sick and twisted people with psycological problems

Answer 14

-domestic violence is too widespread for this to be the case
women’s aid federation domestic violence accounts for 1/6th and 1/4 of all crimes

• coleman: domestic violence doesn’t occur randomly
  colemon et al found that 2 women a week are killed by a partner or former partner

Question 15

what do numbers of vicitms not show us

Answer 15

• the gender difference
  women are much more likely to be sufferers of sexual violence over a long period of time
• doesn’t tell us how frequently it was happening

Question 16

what issues are there with using official statistics to measure domestic violence

Answer 16

• victims may not want to talk to the police

yearnshire- on average women suffered 35 assaults before reporting it to police. domestic violence is the least likely violence to be reported

• police may be reluctant to record and investigate cases

cheal- this is due to the fact that police adn toehr stat agencies dont want to be invlved in the private shpere of an indivduals life

Question 17

what issues is there with police being reluctant to investigate cases of domestic violence?

Answer 17

less cases are successfully prosecuted

between 2006-2011 conviction rates stood at a mere 6.5% of incidents reported to the police

Question 18

what is the radical feminist explanation of domestic violence

Answer 18

feminists like firestone and dobash and dobash;
radical feminsits see the family and marriage as a key institution preserving the patriarchy and within the family men dominate through domestic violence or the threat of it

in their view thsi explains why more men are perpertrators due to the dominant norms of marriage and mens role within marriage

fruther more the reluctance of police investigating is the result of them being male dominated insitutions

Question 19

evaluation of radical feminist view

Answer 19

wrongly assume that all women are equally at risk from DV
ONS statistics show that some social groups are more at risk
- young women
- lower classes in poor areas
- those with high levels of alcohol consumption
- disabled women

Question 20

materialistic view on DV

Answer 20

• focuses on the economic facotrs that explain why some groups are more at risk than others
• pickett and wilkinson argues that doemstic violence is a result of stress on family memebrs cause by inequality

for exmaple worries about money, jobs and housing as well as lack of money reducing social circle able to help releive stress

Question 21

evaluation of materialist explanation

Answer 21

dont explain why women rather than men are more likely to suffer