Wilmott & Young (1973)

• How many people did they interview?

  2,000 people from London and surrounding areas
• What research method did they use?

  Interviews
• What did their research suggest?

  That family life was home centred and that husbands and wives were sharing jobs around the house - the symmetrical family
• What is the principle of stratified diffusion?

  The idea that whatever happens at the top of the stratification system will filter down to the lower end.
• They believed that the asymmetrical family would eventually filter down to the lower end of the stratification system.