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Families and Households - Coggle Diagram
Families and Households
Couples
The domestic division of labour
Domestic division of labour - The roles that men and woman play in relation to:
Housework, Childcare
and
payed work
Parsons: INSTRUMENTAL and EXPRESSIVE roles
INSTRUMENTAL - Husband role. achieving success at work so that he can provide for the family financially
EXPRESSIVE - Wife role. Socioalisation of children and meeting the family's emotional needs. Full time housewife rather than a wage earner.
Parsons
argue that this division of labour is based on biological differences: Woman = nurture. Man = provider. He claims that these roles are
Beneficial
to both men and woman, to their children and wider society
New Right
also agree with Parsons view.
HOWEVER!
Micheal Young
and
Peter Willmott
argue that men are now taking greater share of domestic tasks and more wives are becoming wage earners.
Feminists
argues against these roles being natural. It only benefits men
ELIZABETH BOTT:
Joint and segregated Conjugal roles
SEGREGATED CONJUGAL ROLES - Where the couple have separate roles. e.g. male breadwinner and female carer. Their leisure activities also tend to be separate.
Young and Willmott
identified this pattern and concluded that men the breadwinners played a little part in homelife and spent their freetime with workmates in pubs.
JOINT CONJUGAL GOALS - Where the couple shares tasks such as homework and childcare and spend their time together.
YOUNG AND WILLMOTT:
The symmetrical family
March of view progress - They see family life gradually improving for all its members... becoming more equal and democratic.
They argue that there has been a change of pattern as we as a society steer more towards the
joint conjugal
roles and the
symmetrical family
MEN and WOMEN now share roles such as working part time to help with housework/carer. This can be seen within younger couples today.
FEMINIST
Are couples becoming more equal
Decision making and resources in households
Domestic violence
Theories of the Family
Functionalist perspective
Marxist Perspective
Feminist Perspective
Personal life Perspective
Demography
Births
Deaths
The aging population
Migration
Globalisation and migration
Family Diversity
Modernism and nuclear family
Postmodernism
Families and Social Policy
Different perspectives
Comparative view
Childhood
Childhood as a social construct
The future of Childhood
Has the position of children improved
Changing Family Patterns
Divorce
Partnership
Parent and Children
Ethic differences
Extended family