Couples - 2.2 Flashcards
Conjugal Roles (KS)
> Parsons (Functionalism & CR)
> Bott (Segregated Roles & Joint CR)
Parsons (Functionalism & CR)
> M&F diff roles based on bio diff e.g breadwinner, expressive - clear DOL
> Best way of organising family life, functional (NR agrees)
A03 Functionalist - CR (KS)
> Young & Wilmott
> Feminism
Young & Wilmott (A03 Functionalist - CR)
e.g. SF
Feminism (A03 Functionalist - CR)
SC not natural
Bott’s 2 CR
> Segregated Conjugal Roles: Functionalist View
> Joint Conjugal Roles: Share roles & leisure time
= in DOL (KS)
> Young & Wilmott (SF)
> Sullivan (MOPV)
Young & Wilmott (SF)
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- patriarchy, =, democratic, flexible roles
> F/M work FT, share roles, spend leisure time together
Factors Leading 2 SF
> ILS
Commercialization of Dom Labour
Economically Active F
Improved Living Standards - Factors Leading 2 SF
> Tech, so chores easier to do/no burden, availability only to MC.
Commercialization of Dom Labour - Factors Leading 2 SF
> DEF so + in dom labour industry, + families hiring maids.
Economically Active F - Factors Leading 2 SF
> Girls @ wrk, so M help in house so chores are done.
Sullivan (MOPV)
> F - dom work, M do + trad F tasks & couples have = DOL.
≠ in DOL (KS)
> Oakley (Rejection of MOPV)
> BSA (Inequality in Dom Work)
> Hochschild, Morley & Bell (Inequality in DEF/Unemployed M, Views of Home)
> Dunscombe & Marsden (TS)
Oakley (Rejection of MOPV)
> F still patriarchal & do + housework
> M contribution exaggerated, did help but only ironing shirt 1X a week e.g. 🍒
BSA (Inequality in Dom Work)
> F do 2x + work & couples still divide tasks w/TDDOL.
Hochschild, Morley & Bell (Inequality in DEF/Unemployed M, Views of Home)
> In DEF, F still had responsibility for DOM work
> Even unemployed M resist doing dom work
> F saw home as place of work, M leisure
Dunscombe & Marsden (TS)
> No longer DB, but TS - emotional wrk
Childcare & Quality Time (KS)
> Boulton (Wife Responsible for Childcare)
Braun & Dex Ward (Provider Ideology)
Southerton (Quality Time)
Boulton (Wife Responsible for Childcare)
> Even when M help.
> Less than ⅕ had major role in childcare.
Braun et al, Dex & Ward (Provider Ideology)
> Most M background fathers, w/ provider ideology, role as breadwinner, not primary carer.
> Only 1% of M took responsibility 4 sick kid.
Southerton (Quality Time)
> F responsible 4 managing family quality time
> In late modernity, 24/7 society & flexible working so ppl’s time + fragmented & deroutinised.
> F do childcare & multitask during leisure time, M w/ consolidated uninterrupted blocks o
Reasons for Gender DOL (KS)
> Crompton & Lyonette’s (2 Reasons for Gender DOL)
> Gershuny (Couples Adapting)
> Rad Fem (View on Heterosexual Relationships)
> Dunne (SSC & Gender Scripts)
2 Reasons of Crompton & Lyonette’s (Gender DOL)
> Cultural & Ideological
> Economic
Cultural & Ideological - 2 Reasons of Crompton & Lyonette’s (Gender DOL)
> Patriarchy society, F do + wrk as society expects & socialised to do.
> = only when attidues, norms & socialisation change
> Kan: young M do + dom work, shows gen shift
Gershuny (Couples Adapting) - 2 Reasons of Crompton & Lyonette’s (Gender DOL)
Couples adapted to F working FT, so new norm of M doing + dom work.
Economic - 2 Reasons of Crompton & Lyonette’s (Gender DOL)
> Eco rational for F to do + dom labour, while M spend time getting + money, due to diff in earnings
> = only occurs when F get = to M e.g. - e.g. Kan link vs + earnings 4 F & - in housework
Rad Fem (View on Heterosexual Relationships)
> Patriarchal & ≠ even F work, need 4 political lesbianism
Led to SCC
Dunne (SSC and Gender Scripts) - Supporting Rad Fem
> Lesbian couples w/ kids, had + = in DL
> Heterosexuals socialised into gender scripts w/ diff M & F roles.
> Lesbians didn’t link dom tasks to GS = + negotiation but not = DOL if ≠ earnings
Resource & Decision Making (KS)
> Barrett & McIntosh (Inequality)
> Kempson (Struggle of WC F)
> Pahl & Vogler (Money Management)
> Edgell (M decision making power in MC relationships)
> Smart (PLP view on £ in LGBT Couples)
Barrett & McIntosh (Inequality)
> M get + from F DOM then returned in financial support w/ strings attached
Kempson (Struggle of WC Women)
> Denied own needs, don’t go out, eat less portions of food
> To make ends meet, as money seen as family money.
Pahl & Vogler (Money Management) - 2 Controls over £
- Pooling
- Allowance System
Pooling - Pahl & Vogler (Money Management)
> M&F both = access £ & responsible 4 expenses
> If both work FT, + recently
> But M still make major decisions, due to + earnings.
Allowance System - Pahl & Vogler (Money Management)
> M give F allowance to meet family’s needs, excess kept 4 him. (Declining)
A03 Criticisms of Pahl & Vogler (KS)
> Feminists (Decision Making not Linked w/ Money)
Feminists (Decision Making not Linked w/ Money) - A03 Criticisms of P&V
Decision making not about £ but patriarchal society & socialization
Edgell (Men’s decision making power in MC relationships)
> Decisions made by F e.g. kids clothes, food.
> Decisions on e.g. finances moving house made either jointly or alone but w/ M having final say
Smart (PLP Perspective on Money in LGBT Couples)
> LGBT’s uncorned w/ control over £ fine giving to partners, not seen as inequality
> Don’t have relationships w/ heterosexual baggage of seeing £ as source of power.
