COUPLES Flashcards
Parsons
Domestic division Labour
Husband: instrumental roles
Wife: expressive roles - women naturally fit this role
Criticism for parsons division of labour
Young and willmott-
Men are now taking a greater share of domestic tasks
Feminist - division of labour is natural, only benefits men
Bott
Segregated conjugal roles - male breadwinner and female homemaker
Joint conjugal roles - couples share the house work and childcare
Young and willmott
Symmetrical family
Who says the symmetrical family and what are included
Young and Willmott - Changes in women’s positions Geographical mobility New technology Higher standards of living
Who criticises young and willmott
Feminist
Oakley - claims it is exaggerated and men only help around the house
What does hochschild say
Emotion work - feminists have noticed that women of a family have to take care of the emotional work of the family members
Marsden
Triple shift - housework, paid work, emotion work.
What does Gershuny say?
Couples whose parents had more equal relationships are more likely to share housework equally themselves = parental roles are important, social values
Pahl and vogler
The allowance system - men give wives an allowance to budget for family needs, rest of the income for himself.
Pooling - both partners have joint access to the income: joint bank account
Edgell’s
Decision making
Very important - man (house, change job)
Important - jointly (children’s Ed, holiday)
Less important - female (food, clothes)
Carol smart
Personal life perspective
Some gay and lesbian couples attach no importance to who controlled money
Money wasn’t seen as an control factor (doesn’t mean equality and inequality)
Dobash and Dobash
Challenging a husbands authority, power change = domestic violence
Yearnshire
Women suffers 35 assaults before reporting it
Cheal
Police aren’t prepared to get involved with the family: private sphere, dark side of the family