Money And Decision Making

Question 1

Pahl and Vogler’s two main types of control over family income

Answer 1

Allowance system: where wives are given a budget to run the household
Pooling: where both partners have joint access to income

Question 2

What did Smart find about same sex couples and money?

Answer 2

They give a different meaning to money in a relationship, they attach no importance to who controls it. This is because they don’t have traditional heterosexual gendered views about money and power