key sociologists and what they do

Question 1

Ansely Frann

Answer 1

• describes wives as ‘the takers of shit’. she argues that domestic violence is the product of capitalism ( men take frustration of work on the wife)

Question 2

Elizabeth bott

Answer 2

distinguishes two types of roles within marriage

• separated conjugal roles
• joint conjugal roles

Question 3

Jonathan Gershuny

Answer 3

• argues women working full time leads to a more equal division of labour in the home

Question 4

Oriel Sullivan

Answer 4

• women doing a smaller share of domestic work and men doing more
• increase in number of couples with an equal division of labour

Question 5

British Social attitudes

Answer 5

• fall in number of people who think its a mans job to earn the money

Question 6

Kan

Answer 6

every 10,000 a year more a woman earns, she does two hours less house work per week

Question 7

Ramos

Answer 7

woman is the full time breadwinner and the man is unemployed. he does as much domestic labour as she does.

Question 8

Talcott and Parsons

Answer 8

clear division of labour between spouses:

• instrumental role
• expressive role

Question 9

Willmott and Young

Answer 9

• argue that men are now taking a grater share of domestic tasks and more wives are becoming wage earners
• feminists reject parsons’ view of division of labour is natural

Question 10

Volger

Answer 10

found that even where there was pooling, the men usually made the major financial decisions