Family

• Bott distinguished between joint and segregated roles
• Joint roles share the housework task and childcare, leisure time is spent together
• Segregated roles have couples with separate roles and leisure activities tend to be different
• The traditional family was based on patriarchy where men were dominant over women
• Parsons argued that men hold the instrumental role and women hold the expressive role
• A criticism of the conjugal roles is Willmot and Youngs emergence of the Symmetrical family
• Willmot and Young; 1950 Family & Kinship in East London Research


  evidence of traditional working class families in segregated conjugal roles
• Willmott and Young reconducted research in the 1970, (Kinship & family in east London) 


  March of Progress View. Family gradually improving and becoming more equal and democratic
• March of progress view


  Where childhood is better now, than it was in the past
• There has been an emergence in symmetrical families due to changes in women’s positions, geographical mobility, and higher standards of living