March of progress

Question 1

Sociologists
Who and when?

Answer 1

Wilmott and Young (1973)

Question 2

Stage 1: Pre industrial family

Answer 2

• family works as unit of economical production
• no seperation between work and home
• families live with/close to other family members and work together

Question 3

Stage 2: The early industrial family

Answer 3

• families move to towns and cities, work seperated as men go out to work
• women preform domestic role
• extended family broken up, kinship networks remain important, women rely on female relatives
• willmott + young suggest female relatives bonded but men were excluded from home and psent time at pub instead

Question 4

Stage 3: The symetrical family

Answer 4

• modern nuclear fammily has less seperation that early industrial with women both financially and domesticly contributing
• family is now a unit of consumption
• families tend to be smaller are children are dependants not financial assets
• families have become isolated from kinship ties so spend more time togeteher. Generally joint conjugal roles rather than segregated ones

Question 5

Stage 4: the asymetrical family

Answer 5

• Willmott + young theorised men would increasingly spend leisure time outside the home. They conceeded this didnt occur.
• willmott + young believed in stratified difusion, they suggested cultural changes in family begin intially higher in social class
• hence why the propsed stage 4 as the wealthy had become asymetrial in family life. But there isnt much evidence that stratified diffusion occured in thsi case