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23 Cards in this Set
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Who proposed joint conjugal roles and separate conjugal roles?
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Bott (1957)
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What are joint conjugal roles?
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Men and women share roles within the family
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What are separate conjugal roles?
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The couple have separate roles within the family.
Men are the breadwinners and women are the housewife. They also have separate leisure activities |
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Who proposed the instrumental and expressive roles?
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Parsons
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What is the instrumental role?
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The instrumental role is carried out the husband as men are biologically suited to this role.
They are the providers and the family are dependent on their income |
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What is the expressive role?
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The expressive role is carried out by the wife as they are biologically suited to this.
They meet the family's emotional needs as well as being the housewife |
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What is the March Of Progress, suggested by Young and Willmott?
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Society and family life is gradually progressing from patriarchy to equality and is improving by a new trend towards the 'symmetrical family'
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What evidence is there to support the 'symmetrical family' and the march of progress view?
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Young and Willmott conducted a study in Bethnal Green and they found the 'symmetrical family' is found more in modern, younger couples
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Four reasons why March of Progress has come about?
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-Changes in the position of women (women now go out to work more)
-Geographical mobility -New technology -Higher standards of living |
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Who opposes the 'symmetrical family'?
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Feminists disagree with the trend towards a symmetrical family is society because they believe we still live in a patriarchal society where men dominate women.
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Who provides evidence against the 'symmetrical family?'
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Anne Oakley provides evidence against the symmetrical family as she found only 25% of husbands highly contributed to childcare - no trend towards equality/ symmetrical family.
Therefore Young and Willmott's claims are exaggerated |
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What does Anne Oakley suggest about the housewife?
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She suggests that the housewife is socially constructed because before industrialisation men and women worked equally although afterwards, men took the paid work and left their wives at home. Therefore, the housewife is socially constructed before the roles were not previously like this
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4 ways of which paid work has an impact on roles
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-The commercialisation of housework
-Gender scripts -The dual burden (Anne Oakley) -The triple shift (Duncombe & Marsden) |
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Who suggests a trend towards equality?
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Gershuny suggests a trend towards equality in society as
-norms and values towards housework has changed -social values are now adapting to women working full time |
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Who suggests that men get more out a women's domestic work than women receive financially?
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Barrett and McIntosh (1991), they also suggest men usually make the big decisions of spending money on important items
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Who suggests resources are not shared equally in the family?
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Kempson (1994) suggests this as women are denied their own needs in lower-income families in order to make ends meet
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Who suggests that benefits are a more reliable source of income for women?
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Graham (1984), as well as suggesting women who had separate from their partner were financially better off on benefits
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Why does Crompton partially agree with Gershuny who suggested a trend towards equality?
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Crompton believes that because women's pay has become more equal to men's, men are more likely to do domestic labour.
He believes that household roles have changed because on economic factors rather than the change in norms and values |
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What is the definition of domestic violence?
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Domestic violence is the sexual, financial, physical or psychological violence within an intimate or family relationship.
This violence forms a pattern of controlling or coercive (threatening) behaviour |
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What are some statistic of domestic violence in the UK?
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-6.6 million domestic assaults per year
-1/4 of women have been assaulted in their lifetime -the majority of victims are women -99% of incident against women are committed by men |
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What is Firestone's radical feminist view towards domestic violence?
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Firestone believes that men exploit women through oppressing them. Family is the source of this oppression as it is a key institution in patriarchal society.
Also males are dominant in state institutions so police and courts are reluctant to deal with cases of domestic violence |
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How does Wilkinson (1996) view domestic violence?
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Wilkinson believes that domestic violence caused by social inequality which consequently causes stress and result in domestic violence.
Conflict could be caused because of financial worries Having less power, status or wealth could increase your chances of suffering of domestic violence as the danger is not equal throughout all social classes |
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What does Dobash and Dobash believe about domestic violence?
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We all have free will so women could leave the relationship however they are financially dependent on men.
Women may also be reluctant to leave such relationships because pride of the family and not wanting to look weak |
