couples Flashcards
Distinguish between instrumental and expressive roles.
Distinguish between instrumental and expressive roles.
Parsons’ argues a women’s role in the family is an expressive role, a woman’s familial role is to provide care, love, affection, security and all the necessary emotional support a family member might need. in contrast men have an instrumental role as the bread winner
The instrumental role is the breadwinner role. The expressive role involves primary socialisation of the children and meeting the family’s emotional needs.
State two features of the symmetrical family.
State two features of the symmetrical family.
The roles of husbands and wives are similar: women go out to work, while men help with housework and childcare. • Couples spend leisure time together instead of separately with workmates or female relatives. • It is more common among: younger couples/those who are geographically and socially isolated/the more affluent.
‘Patriarchal norms shape gender roles in couples’. Is this a cultural or a material explanation?
‘Patriarchal norms shape gender roles in couples’.
cultural
What reason does Edgell give for why men have more power to influence family decision-making?
What reason does Edgell give for why men have more power to influence family decision-making?
Because they earn more.
Why according to Smart is control of money less of an issue in some same-sex couples?
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Why according to Smart is control of money less of an issue in some same-sex couples?
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she found that some gay men and lesbians attached no importance to who controlled the money and didn’t see the control of money as symbolic of either equality or inequality in the relationship. she found greater freedom for same-sex couples to do what suits them as a couple and suggest this is because they don’t enter the relationship with the same ‘historical, gendered, heterosexual baggage of cultural meanings around money’ that see money as the source of power
Suggest two reasons why domestic violence is not simply the behaviour of a few psychologically disturbed individuals.
Suggest two reasons why domestic violence is not simply the behaviour of a few psychologically disturbed individuals.
Domestic violence is far too widespread to be the behaviour of a few disturbed individuals. It does not occur randomly but follows particular social patterns with social causes.
Identify two other groups apart from women who are at risk of domestic violence.
Identify two other groups apart from women who are at risk of domestic violence.
those living in the most deprived areas; those on low incomes or in financial difficulties
; those with high levels of alcohol consumption or using illegal drugs;
those with a long term illness or disability
men.
