Gender Roles

Question 1

Parson(functionalist)

Answer 1

Women fulfil the role of socialising children, take on this expressive role due to a woman’s biology meaning they’re better suited to it. Men take on role of earning money and dealing with the stress of wider society.

Question 2

Gabb(feminist)

Answer 2

Motherhood is a social construct instilled as the ideal for young women by the media and their parents. (“the feelings rule”).

Question 3

Young and Willmott

Answer 3

Bethnal Green, 74% shared domestic responsibilties, entering the age of the truly symmetrical family.

Question 4

Oakley(feminist)

Answer 4

Young and Willmott are wrong in confusing help for responsibility. Women take up the lion share of domestic labour in which they find boring, thankless, repetitive and socially isolating.

Question 5

Giddens(late modernist)

Answer 5

Pure relationships, where women only stay in relationships as long as they are heard. Due to the impact of feminism leading to women wanting more independence.

Question 6

Stacy et al (post modernist)

Answer 6

traditionally family ideology is dying out however there is still pressure deriving from cultural heritage.

Question 7

Edgell

Answer 7

Men make the bigger more costly decisions whereas women partake in the smaller short term decisions.

Question 8

Dobash and Dobash

Answer 8

Victims of Domestic abuse still thought men were likely to lash out when challenged.

Question 9

Woklate

Answer 9

Domestic violence is people conforming to their Gender role.