Division of labour

• Patriarchy


  THIS TERM:

  Is where society is dominated by males.
• Instrumental


  THIS TERM:

  The mans role, where he financially supports the family.
• Expressive


  THIS TERM:

  The role that Parsons believed was held by women, which was to stay at home and clean,cook and care for children.
• The symmetrical family


  THIS TERM:

  Is where the men and women have joint conjugal roles. Willmott and Young
• Dual Burden


  THIS TERM:

  ..women = paid work + unpaid domestic labour
• Geographical mobility


  THIS TERM:

  Relocating, in small families, to other areas I.e. For work.
• Triple Shift


  THIS TERM:

  women = paid work + unpaid domestic work + emotion work
• Labour Saving devices


  THIS TERM:

  A machine or a gadget that reduces human effort hard work or labour - makes tasks easier
• Willmott and Young


  THESE SOCIOLOGISTS:

  Sociologists who believed that the family was becoming more symmetrical and was nuclear in structure. They believed the couple had more joint conjugal roles.
• Joint conjugal roles


  THIS TERM:

  Couples do tasks such as domestic work and childcare, also spending their leisure time together
• Segregated conjugal roles


  THIS TERM:

  ...this is when the couple do not equally share household tasks or childcare due to the expressive role of which the woman takes on and the instrumental role of which the man takes on
• Quality time


  THIS TERM:

  ...this is time that a family spend their free time together or a couple spend their free time together.
• Cultural view


  THIS VIEW:

  The division of labour is determined by the norms and values that shape gender roles
• Material view


  THIS VIEW:

  Is the impact of paid work. Yet women get paid less than men this justifies women doing more housework.
• Nuclear family


  THIS TERM:

  A stereotypical family with a heterosexual married couple and children that are related to the parents by blood. Also known as the Cereal Packet family.
• Social mobility


  THIS TERM:

  The movement of individuals and families.
• Socially constructed


  THIS TERM:

  Something is not natural and created by society.
• Provider ideology


  THIS TERM:

  Men still hold the view that they should provide/support the family through paid work.
• Edgell


  THIS SOCIOLOGIST:

  This sociologist argued that MEN make the big decisions (financial) and women make decisions (children/household)
• Pooling


  THIS TERM:

  Younger couples = joint account. More likely to share their resources.

  (Analysis - AGE)
• Allowance system


  THIS TERM

  Older couples = husband earns money and gives wife money to spend on the family. (Analysis - age)
• Analysis (sexuality)


  THIS TERM:

  Same sex couples more likely to share resources, childcare, paid work MORE than a heterosexual couple.
• Analysis (class)


  THIS TERM:

  Working class couples less likely to afford labour saving devices, work longer hours, = traditional gender roles. Compared to Middle class = more equal.
• Analysis (gender)


  THIS TERM:

  Men benefit more from the division of labour (financial and emotionally) compared to women.
• Childcare more equal

  THIS VIEW:

  Men take more of a role in childcare, spend more time in leisure time with them (Willmott/Young), Beck - source of identity. Burghes - at the birth.
• Childcare NOT equal


  THIS VIEW

  Childcare is STILL seen as the woman responsibility.
• Oakley


  THIS SOCIOLOGIST:

  Feminist sociologist who argues that Willmott and young symmetrical family is an exaggeration.
• Graham


  THIS SOCIOLOGIST

  This sociologist argued in low income families women denied their own needs to make ends meet. E.g. skipping meals (Class - analysis)
• Smart


  THIS PERSONAL LIFE SOCIOLOGIST:

  
  

  - suggests we should ASK couples what meanings they attach to money and resources.

  - Same sex couples don't attach POWER to money decisions in the same way heterosexual couples do.
• Kempson


  THIS SOCIOLOGIST:

  
  

  In lower income families, women denied own needs, ate less and rarely went out.
• Pahl and Vogler


  THIS SOCIOLOGISTS:

  
  

  Focus on how each partner's contribution to family income can affect decision-making and they identify 2 types of control

  Pooling = both partners have access to income and joint responsibility

  Allowance system = men gives wives allowance which they need to budget and meet family needs where the man would use surplus amount for his pleasure.
• Barrett and McIntosh


  These Sociologists:

  
  

  - men gain far more from women's domestic work than they give back in financial support

  - the financial support that husbands give to their wives is often unpredictable and comes with 'strings' attached

  - men usually make the decisions about spending on important items
• Gershuny


  This sociologist:

  - Trend toward equality with women working.

  - Higher earning women have MORE of an equal say (compared to low earner women)