Gender

Question 1

Parsons - Fuctionalism

Answer 1

Women - expressive
Men - instrumental

Question 2

Murdock - Fuctionalism

Answer 2

Women’s place is within the home as they are biologically different to men - job is rear children is due to biological factors

Question 3

Rastogi - Fuctionalism

Answer 3

Human capital theory - pay gap is justified because it reflects the fact that men have more human capital than women

Question 4

Schlafly - New right

Answer 4

1970s - acknowledges that marriage can be difficult but sees it as the most fulfilling role for women

Question 5

Murray - new right

Answer 5

Underclass - advocates for nuclear family , blames single parent mothers

Question 6

Dennis and Erdos - New right

Answer 6

Fatherless children - less likely to be successful

Question 7

Engles - Marxism

Answer 7

Exploiter - men
Exploited - women

Question 8

Feely - Marxist feminist

Answer 8

Family teaches passivity not rebellion

Question 9

Benston - Marxist feminist

Answer 9

Women are used to benefitting the operation of the capitalist economy by carrying out unpaid work in the home

Question 10

Ansley -Marxist feminist

Answer 10

Women are the takers of shit - men vent there VERBAL frustration out on their wives

Question 11

Beechey - Marxist feminist

Answer 11

Women are the reserve army of labour

Question 12

Weber -Weberian

Answer 12

Occupational segregation - horizontal and vertical-glass ceiling and concrete floor

Question 13

Barron and Norris - Weberian

Answer 13

Dual labour market theory - primary and secondary

Question 14

The Electoral commission - Weberian

Answer 14

Political activism gap

Question 15

Skeggs - Postmodernism

Answer 15

Women are too divided by class , gender , ethnicity and age for categories of masculinity and feminist to be useful

Question 16

Faludi - Postmodernism

Answer 16

Feminist backlash - younger generations don’t want to talk about the F word

Question 17

Stanko - Radical feminist

Answer 17

Sexual harassment in the workplace is used to keep women in their place

Question 18

Adkins - Radical feminist

Answer 18

Horizontal and vertical segregation

Question 19

Delphy and Lenard - Radical feminist

Answer 19

Women explored by husband - family is an institute that plays a major role in oppression

Question 20

Millet - Radical feminist

Answer 20

Men originally acquired power due to biological factors - development in technology like the pill and modern machinery mean that men can no longer legitimise their power

Question 21

Johnson - Radical feminist

Answer 21

Explains violence that is a result of patriarchal traditions of men’s right to control their women - patriarchal terrorism - violence

Question 22

Oakley - Liberal feminist

Answer 22

4 processes that construct gender identity - Manipulation, Canalisation, different activities and verbal appellations

Question 23

McRobbie - Liberal feminist

Answer 23

Bedroom culture

Question 24

Brewer - Black feminist

Answer 24

Triple system theory - class , race and gender

Question 25

Tubal - Davies - Black feminist

Answer 25

Feminist approaches are ethnocentric- doubly disadvantaged

Question 26

Abbott - Black feminist

Answer 26

Women’s experiences derived from white perspective

Question 27

Walby - Post feminist

Answer 27

Six structures of the patriarchy - Paid employment , household , culture , sexuality, violence and the state

Question 28

Hakim

Answer 28

Women now have more choice and inequality stems from personal preferences and choice