F&H - Topic 1 - Couples Flashcards
Murdock’s 4 functions of the family:
- Economic
- Education
- Sexual
- Reproduction
Parson’s functions of the family
Instrumental and expressive roles
Explain Parsons’ warm bath theory
Stabilisation of adult personality.
Essentially meaning that the family relieves the stress of modern day leaving, providing a warm and living home for individuals.
What roles did Bott come up with?
Join and segregated conjugal roles.
What family did Young and Willmott favour? (March of progress approach)
Symmetrical family
Oakley’s stats on husband participation
Only 15% of husbands had a high level of participation in housework and 25% in childcare.
What do feminists believe the wife is a victim of due to women now working real jobs?
‘dual burden’ of working and being a house work.
What did Gershuny say about women working full time (march of progress)
Women working full time is leading to more equality in housework
Ferri and Smith - father participation
Fathers took responsibility for children in less than 4% of families.
What work does feminist Arlie Russell Hochschild believe women have to perform within a hosuehold
Emotion work.
What did feminists Duncombe and Marsden believe
Women had to take on a ‘triple shift’ emotion work, house work and paid work.
What did Pahl and Vogler come up with in terms of money management
Allowance system (men giving the woman the allowance) and pooling (both having access to income)
What did Pahl and Vogler find even with couples who had the pooling system in terms of money management
Even where there was pooling, the men usually made the final decision
Edgell’s decision system (3)
- Very important: Both or alone; men had final say.
- Important; eg kid education; joint and seldom by the wife alone.
- Less important eg food - wife
What did smart say in terms of money management and homosexuality
Some gay men & lesbians attached no importance to who controlled the money and were happy to leave it to the other
