Socioligists Flashcards
Bott Couples
Joint conjugal roles
Seperated conjugal roles - breadwinner and housemaker
Young and wilmott. Couples
Symmetrical families
Parsons. Couples
Expressive role - carefiver
Instrumental role - financial
Duncombe and Marsden. Couples
Triple shift, women do paid work, house chores and emotional work
Boulton. Couples
Fewer than 20% of males have a major role in the house
Oakley. Couples
Disagrees with young and wilmott
Symetry is overrated, women still do lots more work
Hochschild. Couples
When women are in paid labour, they’re more likely to be involved in paid employment that involve emotional labour
Gillian dunne Couples
Lesbians have more symmetrical family
Edgell. Couples
Most important decisions are made by men
Less important made by both
Least important are made by women
Mirrlee black. Couples
1 I’m 4 women are assaulted by a partner
1 in 8 are assaulted constantly
Aries. Childhood
Only recently childhood is seen as valuable
Pilcher Childhood
Separateness is essential in childhood as it’s a different state from adulthood
Wagg critical of pilcher Childhood
Childhood isn’t separate everywhere, in bolivia children work in farms from young
Punch. Childhood
In non industrial or non western, childrenren take up work much earlier
Shorter. Childhood
High infant mortality rate meant people had more children
Bhatti Childhood
Family honour affects Asian girls in their decision making
Holt. Childhood
Children are oppressed by customs designed to work in their favour, schools, laws exg
Cunningham. Childhood
In 2007, the area children were allowed to play had shrunk by 1/9 of the size it was 25 years ago
Gittins Childhood
Fathers have automatic control of children
Form of oppression
Postman. Childhood
Disappearing childhood
Palmer Childhood
Toxic childhood, technological advancements, accecinility to junk food
Brannen. Childhood
In an Asian household, much more control over girls than boys
Girls do more housework
Howard. Childhood
Material deprivation affects experience of childhood
Functionalist perspective of Murdock
4 functions of family
Sexual
Education
Economic
Reproduction
Functionalist perspective of parsons
More nuclear families, allows to be geographically mobile
2 functions being
Primary socialisation and
Stability for adults - warm bath theory
Marxist perspective of engles
Monogamy ( only one partner) is essential in a capitalist society as it allows property to be passed down if a family member dies
Marxist perspective of zaretsky
The family is essential for the capital system, reproducing workers for the borgouise
Femenists perspective of Ansley
Wives are the takers of shit from their husband as men treat their wives how their bosses treat them at work
Femenist perspective of Greer
Create matrilocal families ( live near wive’s parents) to reduce patriarchy
Sommerville
Women’s position has changed over time, but still isn’t equal
Oakley
Women have become more empowered through expectations of girls
Mckeown (demography)
Improved nutrition accounted for at least half of the reduction in death rates
Hirsch (demography)
The traditional age pay gap is decreasing
The griffiths (demography)
It’s difficult for society to meet the needs of an ageing population
Pichler
Gender Discrimination in age affects people later on in life more as women may have had a career break or part time work to have a child, so will not have a sufficient pension
Mitchell and goody ( changing family patterns)
The stigma attached to divorce has rapidly declined
Fletcher ( changing family patterns)
People have a high expectation of marriage with more television showing “true romantic love”, leads to more divorces
Allan and crow ( changing family patterns)
Couples are no longer financially dependent, leads to more divorce
Hothschild ( changing family patterns)
Women feel more valued at work than home
Less time for emotional work
Morgan ( changing family patterns)
Divorce is a vague term as the reason is different for every couple
Chester ( changing family patterns)
Cohabitation is just a stepping stone to marriage
Couples that cohabit want to get married later
Weeks ( changing family patterns)
Increased social acception leads to more cohabitation
Murray ( changing family patterns)
Their is an attraction of a single parent family with the state paying benefits welfare
Leads to a dependency culture
Smith ( changing family patterns)
Step families have similarities to nuclear families
Allan and crow criticism of smith
Step families have difficulties with dividing loyalties
Mirza ( changing family patterns)
The high rate of single parent families emphasises the importance black mothers place on independence
Benson ( family diversity)
Between 2000-2001 3000/15000 mothers became single mothers after 3 months
Chester ( family diversity)
Neo conventional families are a nuclear family with shared rolls
Rapoports ( family diversity)
5 types of diversity in families
Organisational
Life -style
Social class
Generational
Cultural
Hareven ( family diversity)
Part of the reason for change in family diversity is much freeer choices in life
Cheal ( family diversity)
In postmodern society, people are a lot freer
Therefore we can’t refer to family as one thing
Giddens ( family diversity)
Family has been changed by women’s change of position and more contraception
Beck ( family diversity)
In a “risk society” people afeel less obliged to church or families to live life in a particular way
Secularisation
Weeks ( family diversity)
More acceptance to a higher family diversity
Stacey ( family diversity)
Divorce extended family, women often stay close with ex mother in laws
Fletcher ( social policy )
Welfare state allows families to perform their functions
Housing health care and education
Murray ( social policy )
Welfare state is an incentive not to work and strain on family
Land ( social policy )
Social policy assume that a patriarchal and nuclear family are ideal ones
Donzelot ( social policy )
The state has many ways of surveillance and policing if a family is a safe environment for a child
Gershuppy. Couples
As women go into more labour, their hw decreases
Walter childhood
Since the 1990s celebrations of the women body, young girls have been over sexualised
Jenks childhood
Childhood isn’t actually missing, but is now protected more than ever with dangers from social media
Fran ansley couples
Women ar e the takers of shit
Edgall couples
Men make biggest decisions
Joint on medium
Women do small households
