families and households

• Symmetrical family; March of progress


  Wilmott & Young
• Segregated and joint conjugal roles


  Elizabeth Bott
• Triple shift

  Duncombe & Marsden
• Childhood is a modern construct; paintings study


  Aries
• Childhood is disappearing 'at a dazzling speed'

  Postman
• Nuclear family has two functions: stabilisation of adult personalities and the socialisation of children


  Parsons
• Family needs to be mobile because of the industrial revolution, the nuclear family is best equipped


  Parsons
• Family performs 4 functions: economic needs, reproduction, socialisation, and satisfaction of the sex drive


  Murdock
• March of progress criticism, men still only 'help' with the housework


  Ann Oakley
• Women feel a dissatisfaction with patriarchal marriage

  Bernard (radical feminist)
• We are now in a 'risk society'; tradition has less influence


  Beck (post-modernist)
• Instrumental role & expressive role


  Parsons
• 6.6 million domestic assaults every year, 99% committed by men against women.


  Mirlees-Black
• 1/4 women suffer domestic abuse at least once in her life, 1/8 repeatedly so


  Mirlees-Black
• Domestic abuse is the result of stress from social inequality

  Wilkinson