families and households (2) Flashcards
What does the Post modernist perspective - life course analysis mean ?
The meaning people give to the idea of the family and the decisions they make regarding family practises
What does the Lifecourse analysis - David Morgan mean ?
The meaning people give to the idea of the family and the decisions they make regarding family practises are influenced by their stage in the life course. People are free to choose diverse family relationships but some choose to follow traditional norms.
Post modern argues that sociological studies of the family should focus on life courses
Life course is made up of several stages: Birth, early childhood , puberty , marriage and death
What does the Family practises - Harven and Morgan mean ?
Meaning people attach to these events will vary. Individual family members will interpret their lives, relationships and choices differently. There is no one set way of doing things.
What does the Personal life-smart mean ?
Should avoid using the term “family”,instead apply the concept of personal life to describe a range of lifestyle choices. Relationships and household settings which stem beyond the transitional blood ties, concept of families is to associated with value judgements about what deals or normal
What evidence is there that family diversity has taken place ?
Family diversity has taken place as Chester argues it is increasing but he still believes the nuclear family is still the dominant type. For example cohabitation has been increasing since the 2000s as the divorce rate increased since 1991.
As chester says cohabitation is a prelude to marriage. People are getting married later on in life and the average age for women is 37.5. This shows that family diversity has taken place.
Beck argues that the family is in decline. As society is becoming more fluid. Families are becoming zombies as the special meaning is being lost. Plp considers kin relationships and pets as family. This therefore broadens the concept of family anf there is no special meaning
What evidence is there that conjugal roles has become equal ?
British farmers care of infants and young children rose 1975 and 1997
From 15 minutes to 2 hours
The time spent by british men on domestic work rose from 90 minutes per day to 148 minutes per day in 200
What Evidence is there that conjugal roles is not equal ?
Women spend over 2 hours and 30 minutes on doing housework . 1 hour and 30 minutes more than men
Over all men have an extra 30 minutes of free time
What is domestic labour ?
Housework and chores in the home
What is domestic division of labour ?
How labour is divided up
What are conjugal roles?
The roles that spouses take on in home
What did young and willmott argue ?
1970 - emergence of the symmetrical family- the sharing of domestic work and leisure activities between spouses.
Relationships of this type are known as joint or intergrated , conjugal roles as opposed to segregated conjugal roles.
Some sociologists have suggested that there has been the emergence of the new man who shares the responsibility of paid work , child care and housework
What does Oakley say ?
UT oakley (1974) argues that young and willmott claim of increasing symmetry is based on inadequate methodology. Their conclusion is based off one interview questions which was worded in a way that could exaggerate the amount of housework done by men
A small scale research done by oakley and edgell -1980 found that little sharing of household tasks
What are the housework and child care sociologists and their views ?
Gershury - (1992-1999) found that the husbands of working women continued to do less than half the total unpaid work done by their spouses’
However, although the dual burden of paid and domestic work remained for women , men seemed to make more effort to do housework when their wives were in paid work.
Ferri and smith 1996 - through data from national child development survey used they found that :
Still unusual for men to take primary responsibility for childcare, even in dual earner families
Employment of women outside the home has had little impact on contribution of men to childcare or housework
famileis and households
What are the conjugal roles and hours worked sociologists viewed ?
Young and Willmott - found that the difference between mens and womens work time in the home were not that great.
Man yee kan - income, employment and age affects how much h/w women do.
every £10,000 in women’s annual income reduces weekly household time by 2 hours
conjugal roles and hours worked
What are the conjugal roles and power worked sociologists view ?
Volgel and pahl (1994). They found an increase in the proportion of relationships with egalitarian financial arrangements but this proportion remained small. 23% men & 7% women
Edgell 1980 - he found that women tended to dominate in areas such as domestic spending and children’s clothes, but men dominated in areas that were considered more important, such as moving house and overall finance.
conjugal roles and sexuality
What does rolles relationship mean?
Role expected and allocated to different members of the family and how they affect and interact with those of others family members
Is power and relationship?
how power is defined and distributed in families and and how this affects relationships between family members feminist view
What is the march of progress?
Gershury 1994 adaptation light adaptation lagged men doing more
Sullivans - men are doing more women are doing less than before as woman are in paid work
What is the feminist view?
Women working has not lead to equality
little sign of new man
man spent 10 hours on care for family where as women spend 23 hours
woman do twice as much as men
woman likely to do laundry cleaning look after the sick shopping while men do small repairs since 1994
Alan 1990 nineteen eighty-four argues that woman take task such as washing cleaning or less satisfying
division of labour is unjust
What is contemporary evidence?
middle class household less egalitarian in lockdown
in conclusion it is it is inclusive va as every household is different as the Norms is different covid-19 is temporary so it was lockdown
What is the Cultural ideology view ?
DDL LS is determined by patriarchal norms and values which Space gender roles
Gershuny- parental role models are important children’s parents adapting to the New Normal of working women and men doing more housework
man yee kan - younger men domestic work generational shift
Childhood
what does pitcher say
childhood is a clear and distinct life stage form childhood
- laws regulate what children can do
- different dress /clothes
- specific protection and servies for cildren e.g child protection ,day care
