Sociology 1 - Family { men & women } Flashcards
Dobash x Dobash
-radical feminist
marriage and the nuclear family are key institutions of patriarchy & main source of women’s oppression
- domestic violence is inevitable and serves to preserve power men have over women
Ansley
Marxist feminist
women are the takers of shit
- absorb men’s frustration - male workers exploited at work + take frustrations out on wives
- domestic violence is a product of capitalism
-Wilkinson - Marxist
argues domestic violence is a result of stress on family caused by social inequality
why are gender roles changing from segregated to joint
economically active mothers ~ women now working + part of instrumental role and expect men to also help out around the house, women can afford to divorce partners if they do not contribute equally
decline in extended family ~ less support with childcare + housework so there is a need to help each other due to decline in female kinship networks e.g. aunts, gran + decline in sandwich generation (women no longer need to look after both grandparents and kids)
-weakening gender identities ~ decrease in stigma in society of men taking on more ‘female’ roles e.g. childcare + rise in the new man ~ men are more willing to help out with housework in the home
technology + living standards ~ rise of tech due to globalisation has enabled women to spend less time completing chores and can now spend more time at work creating dual earner households
commercialisation of housework ~ products to help household chores e.g. washing machine, dishwasher,
meaning chores have become easier to carry out + simpler to understand so men are more likely to also get involved w housework, reduced burden on women along w womens employment
Bott
-segregated conjugal roles~ division of labour is split between partners traditionally
- joint conjugal roles ~shared division of labour e.g. women cooks man does dishes
Dunscombe x marsden
triple shift - paid work, emotion work, housework
Edgell
family is not egalitarian,
the very important decisions are taken by men e.g. moving house and small day 2 day decisions made by women e.g. dinner
Pahl x Vogler
2 ways money is split in relationship:
1. Allowance~ wives are given certain amount of money each week
2. pooling ~ sharing income and access to money e.g. shared accounts and credit cards used more by young people
however even tho both partners worked it was still men making the major financial decisions
contemp: 53% working men make financial decisions
The Bright Grey 2011 - 59% married couples consult each other about financial issues
pahl
most households today men are still the main earner of family resulting in women being in a place of economic dependence rather than independence meaning men still control financial decisions
- growing invidualisation within financed of the family w each person taking responsibility for their own finances
principle of stratified diffusion
young & Willmott
family will become asymmetrical w more segregated conjugal roles in the future
cultural changes began amongst higher social classes and diffuse down becoming the norm
McKeown
tranter
-improved nutrition accounts to up to half reductions in death rates
- diseases of affluence e.g. heart disease + cancers replaced infectious diseases as main cause of death
conventional family
nuclear family seen to be powerful + supports patriarchy, unlikely to be replace
LAT - Levin
new family type ~ living apart together (long term intimate relationships but live in separate homes)
LAT is alternative to marriage/cohabitation
why choose this:
- resolving relationship issues
- prioritising independence
- complex living situations
duncan x phillips
Lat’s increasingly understood and accepted by wider public + found that LAT’s exposed to same expectations as couples married/cohabitating
stats show number of LAT’S increasing - 572 in UK but hard to measure
