Couples

Question 1

Levin

Answer 1

Traditional couple life cereal packed family or nuclear family

Question 2

Beck-gernsheim 1

Answer 2

Traditional relationships have lost meaning changes caused by contraception growing equality for women changes in female expectations of relationships

Question 3

Beck-Gernsheim 2

Answer 3

Love rather than practicality now guides relationships in the past marriage was a tool used to gain something social position land. Now people marry people because they love someone

Question 4

Chambers

Answer 4

Cereal packet families have declined but many families still follow traditional labour like women carrying out most of the domestic duties and childcare

Question 5

Smart

Answer 5

People still controlled by external rules and pressures class gender ethnicity
Individualisation thesis where no factors other than love only occurs in a small percentage of famillies and relationships

Question 6

Young and willmott

Answer 6

In the past there were segregated conjugal roles where men worked and women only did domestic duties and childcare
In the present there has been a rise in segregated conjugal roles the sharing of domestic duties as a result of the rise of the new man and women now working

Question 7

Ben-gallon and Thompson

Answer 7

Though rise integrated segregation roles women still do most of the work in the house compared to the men whilst working this leading to women experiencing second shift or duel labour

Question 8

Oakley

Answer 8

She is a liberal feminist that is critical of Wilmot and young’s ideas stating that families are not becoming symmetrical women still depend on men and housework is still mainly considering women’s job

Question 9

Delphi

Answer 9

Radical feminist who believes the housewife role was created by men to follow a patriarchal order that women service men. She believes increases domestic violence in families as men use it to exploit and control women in a family

Question 10

Marxists evaluate young and wilmott

Answer 10

Housewife role created to serve capitalism to maintain current workforce and reproduce the next generation women exploitation used to serve ruling class

Question 11

Functionalist evaluation of young and wilmott

Answer 11

Sexual division of labour is inevitable as women are biologically suited for caring and nurturing roles whilst men are naturally more dominant thus the breadwinners

Question 12

Duncome and Marsdon

Answer 12

Talks about triple shift which is wear women also carry out the emotional work of the family thus they manage work, expressive and emotional

Question 13

Gatrell

Answer 13

Women are seen as unreliable employees as at most case they are seen at some point to need maternity thus hidden discrimination and haltering work development with employers even being unwilling to invest untrainable programmes to help them