Families and Households Flashcards
Boulton - Equality
Men may be taking on more domestic roles, but women always think about welfare and security (triple shift)
Fletcher - Marriage
Higher expectations placed on marriage - people are looking for love
Coast - marriage
75% of cohabiting couples expect to marry
Charles - Family diversity
Extended family is ‘all but extinct’
Parsons - Division of labour
Women - Expressive
Men - Instrumental
Young and Wilmott - Division of labour
Symmetrical family
Bott - division of labour
segregated and joint conjugal roles
Boulton - Division of labour
Fewer than 20% of fathers have an active role in childcare
Duncombe and Marsden - Equality
women perform a triple shift
Barret and mcintosh - rescources
men gain more in domestic support than women get back financially
Finch - resources
women’s lives revolve around men
Smart - resrouces
same sex relationship place no importance on who controls the money
Dobash and Dobash - DV
set off by women challenging mens authroity
Radical feminsist - DV
Due to patriachy
Materialist explanation - DV (Pickett)
Due to economic pressure
Aries - Childhood
childhood is socially constructe, it didnt exsist in the middle ages
Postman - Childhood
childhood is disappearing due to information hierachy. Rise of TV and fall of print
Opie - childhood
still a clear childhood culture
Palmer - Childhood
toxic childhood
Bonke - Childhood
girls are more likley to do domestic labour
Firestone and holt - childhood
protection is just oppression and control
Hockey and James - childhood
acting up and acting down
Murdock’s essential functions
satisfaction, reproduction, socialisation and economic
Marxists functions
inheritance of property, ideological conditioning, unit of consumption
Greer - functions
political lesbiansim solution to the oppression in families
Mitchell and Goody - divroce
rapid decline in stigma surrounding divorce
Beck and Giddens - marriage
traditional norms have lost their influence
Duncan and Phillips - family diveristy
1/10 of relationships are LATs
Murray - family diversity
welfare state has provided a perverse incentive
Mirza - family diversity
Black women place importance on independence
Chester - family
neo-convential family where both parents work
Rapoports - family diversity
families adapt to pluralistic society to adapt to the needs of society
Stacey - Family diversity
women can now free themselves from patriachal oppression
Beck and Giddens - family diversity
all about individual choice
Giddens - family diversity
Pure relationship held together by love and satisfaction
Smart and May - family diversity
there is more diversity but postmodernism ignores the impact that structures still have
Ann Oakley - division of labour
Women are still oppression by the patriarchy - only 15% of husbands have a high participation in housework
Gershuny - equality
women working full time is leading to more equality
Kempon - resources
Women often deny their own needs to make ends meet
Walby and Allen - DV
women more likely to be victims of DV
Elliot - DV
not all men are violent
Ansley - DV
women are takers of shit
Pilcher - Childhood
Modern childhood is defined by ‘seperateness’
Shorter - childhood
high death rates in history encourages indifference and neglect
hillman - childhood
boys are more likely to be allowed to cycle on roads
Brannen - childhood
asian parents are stricter
gittens - childdhod
age patriachy
Parsons functional fit
geographically mobile and socially mobile
parsons irreducible functions
socialisation and warm bath
somerville - feminism
radical feminists refuse to recognise improvement
Allen and Crow - marriage
personal satisfaction
Allen and Crow - money
marriage is no longer needed for economic support
bernard - marriage
women are unsatisfied with patriachal oppression within a marriage
Benson - marriage
couples are more stable once married
Beck - family diversity
negotiated family