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