Families and Households Flashcards
What is a family?
A family is a group of people who are related by bloodline.
What is a household?
A group of people living together who are not necessarily related to one another.
What does Oakley mean by cereal packet families?
She is referring to how on adverts for cereals, there is always a perfect family e.g mum, dad and kids.
What is the biological sex role theory? (Parsons)
Idea that the housework, childcare and emotional work is the job of the woman and the paid work is more suited to the man.
The man is a breadwinner and the women have more of an instrumental role.
Why are men seen as being more suited to the physical labour and not women?
Because men are built to be more physically stronger and women are weaker.
What is nesting?
This is when women start to get comfortable and get things ready for when their baby arrives. They are getting their space ready
What is sex typing?
Theory by warde where he explains that different genders are assigned different tasks such as men fixing the car while women do the laundry.
What does Bott believe about types of role in the family
Segregated conjugal roles - when couples have separate roles for example what parsons believes with the biological sex role theory. It also involves separate leisure time
Joint conjugal roles - where couples are splitting tasks and housework while also spending leisure time together
What is the March of Progress View by Wilmott and Young?
They claim there to have been an increase in the symmetrical family. They studied families in London and looked at how men and women shared out tasks equally, often both worked and then when they got home they would spend leisure time together.
What is parsons’ functional fit theory?
The idea that the family adjusts to the society we are in.
