Families and Households Theorists

Question 1

Duncombe and Marsden

Answer 1

Developed the idea of a triple shift where emotional work is added to domestic work and paid work

Question 2

Hareven (1978)

Answer 2

Life Course Analysis focuses on what family members find important rather than sociologists.
Family structures and the result of just choice.

Question 3

Morgan (1996)

Answer 3

Family practices are influenced by beliefs about rights and responsibilities.
Conflict is caused by a clash of family practices.

Question 4

Che (1993)

Answer 4

We no longer live in a modern world with predictable orderly structures , we now live in chaotic post modernity.

Question 5

The Rapoports (1982)

Answer 5

Diversity is at the heart of family life. We live in a pluralistic society.

Question 6

Chester (1985)

Answer 6

Neoconventional family

Question 7

Wilmott and Young (1973)

Answer 7

Developed Elizabeth Bott’s view of segregated conjugal roles.
Argues the symmetrical family is becoming increasingly more dominant, equal and less patriarchal.

Question 8

Knudsen and Waerness (2008)

Answer 8

Studied 34 countries and found there were no modern countries where men did more housework.
2/3 is completed by women.

Question 9

Kan Et Al (2011)

Answer 9

Argues that even though men have contributes more to domestic jobs, there is still a divide.

Question 10

Mirlees and Black

Answer 10

Most victims of domestic violence are women.
99% of all incidents against women are committed by men.
Nearly 1 in 4 women had been assaulted by a partner in her lifetime, and 1 in 8 repeatedly so.

Question 11

Dobash and Dobash (1979)

Answer 11

Violent incidents could be set off by what a husband saw as a challenge to his authority.
Marriage legitimates violence against women.

Question 12

Stephanie Yearnshire

Answer 12

A woman suffers 35 assaults before making a report.
Most likely assaults go unreported.

Question 13

David Cheal (1991)

Answer 13

Police are reluctant to record cases due to the fact they are not prepared to become involved in the family.
The family is a private sphere.

Question 14

Millet and Firestone

Answer 14

Radical Feminists
Domestic abuse asserts dominance in a patriarchal society.
Maintains men’s power.
Explains the reluctancy of the police to deal effectively with cases of domestic violence.
Court system is patriarchal.
Women are dominated through domestic violence.

Question 15

Elliot (1996)

Answer 15

Rejects the idea that all men are violent, as radical feminists suggest.

Question 16

Postman (1994)

Answer 16

Argues that childhood is disappearing and the distinction between adults is blurring.

Question 17

Who coined the term ‘plastic sex’?

Answer 17

Anthony Giddens

Question 18

Delphy and Leonard (1992)

Answer 18

Familiar exploitation study:
Men benefit from women’s labour.
Family is responsible for ensuring patriarchy remains.
Women are oppressed because they have to carry up tasks at home after coming back from work. (Dual burden)
This is a form of exploitation as household tasks are not equally shared.

Question 19

Marilyn Loden

Answer 19

Loden described the cultural challenges women face when their careers stagnate at middle-management roles, preventing them from attaining higher leadership or executive positions.
Referred to the term ‘glass ceiling’.

Question 20

Leach, Laing, Cooper

Answer 20

Family can be the root cause of violence.