March of Progress - Wilmott and Young

• 1. Primary Socialisation


  Family is a unit of economic production
• 2. Early industrial stage


  Extended family breaks, female relatives bonded from housework, men excluded and spent time away from home working, segregated conjugal roles
• 3. Symmetrical family


  Family is a unit of consumption = children are dependents instead of financial assets, joint conjugal roles
• 4. Asymmetrical family 


  Men spend more of their leisure time outside of their home
• Evaluation

  • Some rural area family still follow preindustrial stage
  • Feminists = symmetrical family doesn't exist, women take on triple shift
  • Many still view nuclear as ideal, still common