Unit 1 SCLY1 - Culture and Identity; Families and Households; Wealth, Poverty and Welfare
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Summary Gender roles and the family
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Unit 1 SCLY1 - Culture and Identity; Families and Households; Wealth, Poverty and Welfare
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Including conjugal roles, Margaret mead, Dabb (2008), symmetrical family, asymmetrical family, crompton and Lyonette, Kan and Laurie, Domestic abuse, Claires law, Dobash and Dobash
Unit 1 SCLY1 - Culture and Identity; Families and Households; Wealth, Poverty and Welfare
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Gender roles and the family
Conjugal roles
- The relationships between male and female partners in intimate
relationships
Two types of conjugal roles:
1. Shared = partners share responsibility for domestic tasks, and both
do paid employment. Generally characterised by relative equality and
a strong bond.
2. Segregated = husbands and wives have different roles within their
marriage
Integrated/joint conjugal roles – interchangeable and flexible roles. Parents
share common friends, leisure activities and decision making.
Margaret Mead – gender roles are a social construction and are not
universal
Gabb (2008): Learning to be a mother
- The role of being a mother is not biological – it does not come
naturally – it is the product of the culture of a particular society
- Motherhood is something someone ‘does’ rather than something
someone ‘is’
- Learnt from parents, books, classes, tv
Symmetrical family (privatised nuclear)
- Modern nuclear family now has less gender segregation
- Men and women both employed
- Both contribute to domestic chores
- Family is a unit of consumption
- Smaller families – children dependent
- Isolated from kinship networks
- Joint conjugal roles
- Leisure home based
, Asymmetrical family (future)
- Suggested that the family would become asymmetrical with men
spending their leisure time outside the home and without their
partners (for e.g. on the golf course)
- Y & W use the theory of stratified diffusion to explain changes in
family life. The lifestyles of those at the top of the social ladder are
gradually adopted by those at the bottom.
How do you decide who does which jobs?
- Crompton and Lyonette (2008)
- Economic (materialistic theories) it is rational for women to do more
housework if men earn more as taking time out of work to do
housework would be more detrimental
- Normative (Gender constructionist theories) not a rational decision,
but shaped by society’s gender role construction.
Kan and Laurie (2016)
- Inequality reduced when women are employed and when they hold a
degree
- Women who had full-time, high salaries roles, did less housework
- In Pakistani couples women did 83% of housework
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