Topic 1 (family) key terms & figures

Instrumental and expressive roles - Parsons 1955

●Going out and earning a wage

●domestic labour, childcare, cleaning/cooking

Segregated and joint conjugal roles - Elizabeth Bott 1957

●Where men and women have different roles, men=instrumental and women=expressive

●Couples share roles of income, chores and spend leisure time together

Symmetrical family - Young and Wilmott 1973

‘March of progress’ - Family life improving for all family members and becoming more equal

Emotion work

Managing emotions of family members as well as their own

Dual burden and the Triple shift

●Women doing instrumental and expressive roles

●Women doing instrumental, expressive roles and emotion work