domestic division of labour Flashcards
Parsons (1995)
- what are expressive and instrumental roles?
expressive role - women are responsible for the primary socialisation of children and being a housewife
instrumental role - men are responsible for achieveinv success being the breadwinner and providing financially for the family
Parsons (1995)
- what is the DDOD based upon?
biological differences between men and women
🙎🏻♀️- nurturing role
🙎🏻♂️- providing role
Parsons say these benefit 🙎🏻♂️🙎🏻♀️ in society
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who crisitsices Parsons view on the instrumental and expressive role
Young and willmot (1962)
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what do Willmot and Young (1995) say about Parsons view on instrumental and expressive roles
🙎🏻♂️ - doing more housework
🙎🏻♀️ - becoming wage earners
Bolt (1957)
what are the 2 types of conjugal roles in the family
joint - couples who share domestic tasks together and spend their leisure time together
segregated - separate domestic roles and do not spend their leisure time together
Willmott and Young (1962)
evidence supporting segregated conjugal roles
Conducted research into traditional W/C extended families in London in 1950s and found that 🙎🏻♂️🙎🏻♀️ were taking on their expressive and instrumental roles
with 🙎🏻♀️ spending leisure time with next of kin and 🙎🏻♂️ spending theirs with their friends at pubs/clubs
Willmot & Young (1973)
what did they find in their continuation of the study
they took a “march of progress” view finding that the family life is gradually improving with a trend showing couples are turning closer to joint conjugal roles
what is the symmetrical family
when couples are moving towards more conjugal roles
Willmot & Young (1973)
why are families becoming more symmetrical
- feminisation of education means more 🙎🏻♀️ are working
- 🙎🏻♂️ helping with childcare/domestic work
- couples spend their leisure time together
Willmot & Young 1950s study
What families were the symmetrical families most common in and why
young families who were geographically & socially isolated to their home town
because of CPOW
new technology
higher standard of living
geographical mobility
feminist view of housework
reject “march of progress view” arguing women still do the majority of housework due to patriarchy occupying a subordinate, dependent role
how does oakley criticise Willmot and Young
cristisises symmetrical view of the family saying only 15% of husbands do a lot of housework and 25% had high participation in childcare
