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