COUPLES

COUPLES

DIVISION OF LABOUR
1. Functionalism: Parsons (1955) instrumental and expressive role, biologically base, functional for the family, its members and wider society
2. March of progress: Bott (1957) - segregated and joint conjugal roles
3. Young & Willmott (1950s) WC, extended families in Bethnal Green, (1973) trend towards symmetrical family
4. Feminism: Oakley (1974) housewife role is 'socially construct'
IMPACT OF PAID WORK
1. Dual burden - housework and paid work Duncombe and Marsden (1995): triple shift - emotion work also.
2. Commercialisation of housework - schor (1993) - death of the housewife role
3. Gershuny: lagged adaptation Sullivan (2000)
4. Gender scripts: Dunne (1999) 37 lesbian couples - more equal. Heterosexuals: socialised into gender scripts. Homosexuals: did not link household tasks to gender
RESOURCES AND DECISION MAKING
1. Kempson (1994) women in low income families denied own needs to make ends meet. Resources shared unequally
2. Pahl & Vogler (1993): allowance system, pooling. Volger (1994): increase in pooling.
3. Edgell (1980): important decisions made by men because they earn more
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
1. sociologists: DV too widespread to be the behaviour of only a disturbed few.
2. 6.6 million assault per year - mainly men against women. 1 in 4 women are assaulted at some time (BCS)
3. Problems with statistics: Under-reporting and Under-recording. Yearnshire (1997) - women on average suffer 35 assaults before reporting to the police
4. Russell & Dobash (1979) violence was triggered when men felt that their authority was being challenged.
5. Radical feminists: men oppress women through family. Men also dominate the state = why courts & police fail to take DV seriously
6. Mirrlees-Black - other groups at risk of DV: Young people, WC, rented accommodation, high alcohol + drug consumption
7. Elliot (1996) - not all men are aggressive

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