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What are the key concepts of Parson’s in relation to couples?

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  • expressive and instrumental roles
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What are the key concepts of Bott in relation to couples?

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  • seperated conjugal roles
  • joint conjugal roles
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What are the key concepts of Young and Wilmott in couples?

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  • march of progress
  • symmetrical family
  • egalitarian
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What are the key concepts of Oakley in couples?

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  • the rise of the housewife role
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What is Parson’s division of labour based on?

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  • biological differences
  • women are more ‘naturally’ suited to the nurturing role
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What is the March of Progress view of family life?

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  • gradually improving for all its members
  • symmetrical family – the roles are now much more similar
  • symmetrical family is more common amongst younger couples
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What are the reasons for the rise in the symmetrical family?

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  • changes in women’s position in society
  • more women working
  • geographical mobility
  • new technology and labour saving devices
  • higher standards of living
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What is Oakley’s feminist view of couples?

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  • men and women remain unequal within the family and women do most of the housework
  • the fact men are seen as ‘helping’ women more does not prove symmetry. it shows that the responsibility of housework is still the womans
  • even though more women work, the housewife role is still the woman’s primary role
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What research supports the unequal division of labour?

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  • Warde – sex-typing of domestic tasks is still strong. Women are 30 times more likely to do the washing and men 4 times more liekly to wash the car
  • office for national statistics – women spend on average 2.5 hours a day on housework, men spend 1
  • boutlon – only 20% of husbands have a major role in childcare
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What were the results of Man-Yee Kan’s study on the impact of paid work on housework?

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  • for every £10k increase in salary, there is a two-hour reduction in housework
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What does Gershuny believe with paid work and housework?

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  • wives who work do less housework
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What does Gershuny believe about equality within couples?

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  • there has been a gradual increase in equality between the sexes due to a shift in norms and values around paid work.
  • It is seen as the norm for wives and mothers to work
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What does Crompton believe about equality in couples?

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  • agrees with Gershuny however believes equality is linked to earnings rather than changing norms and values
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What does Sullivan believe about equality in couples?

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  • men are taking on more traditionally female tasks
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What is the dual burden?

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  • paid work
  • unpaid housework
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What did Feri and Smith’s survey show about childcare?

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  • Fathers took main responsibility for childcare in under 4% of families
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What did Arber and Ginn say about childcare?

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  • full day childcare is essential for many women to stay in employment
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What did Morris say about the dual burden?

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  • even when fathers are unemployed, they avoid the housework
  • crisis of masculinity
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What is the triple shift?

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  • paid work
  • unpaid housework
  • emotional work
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What is Duncombe and Marseden ‘s view of equality in relationships?

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  • triple shift
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What did Dunne find out about same sex couples?

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  • lesbian couples were more likely to
    • share childcare and houswork equally
    • ascribe equal importance to their careers
    • view childcare positively
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What does Dunne believe is the reason for the unequal division of labour?

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  • deeply ingrained gender scripts
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How often does a woman die at the hands of her partner in the UK?

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  • office of national statistics – more than 2 every week
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What are the 5 main types of abuse?

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  • physical
  • emotional
  • sexual
  • financial
  • neglect
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What group does Selbourne is the most likely to be murdered?

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  • children under 5 by someone they know
26
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How much crime does domestic violence account for?

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  • 1/6 of all violent crime
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What does Dobash and Dobash find out and believe about domestic violence?

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  • violent incidents could be set off by what the husband saw as a challenge to his authority
  • marriage legitimised violence against women
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What do radical feminists believe about domestic violence and the family?

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  • the family is the main source of female oppression
  • women are dominated through domestic violence or the threat of it
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What is a criticism of the Radical Feminist view point on domestic violence?

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  • Elliot – not all men are aggressive or violent, radical fems tend to ignore this
  • fails to explain female violence including child abuse and violence against male partners
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What do Radical feminists Firestone and Millet believe?

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  • Dobash and Dobash’s evidence is evidence of patriarchy
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What groups did Mirlees identify as more at risk of domestic violence?

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  • children and young people
  • those in lower social classes
  • those in rented accomodation
  • drug users and those with high levels of alcohol consumption
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What are the possible explanations for domestic violence?

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  • patriarchy
  • stress caused by social inequality
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What does Wilkinson believe about the cause of domestic violence?

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  • domestic violence is the result on stress on family members caused by social inequality
  • worries about money, jobs and housing may spill over into domestic conflict as tempers become frayed
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What are some criticisms of Wilkinson?

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  • doesn’t explain why women are victims more than men
  • fails to explain why wealthy people commit domestic violence

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