key sociologists

Parsons

• nuclear family

• segregated roles

• functionalist

• instrumental and breadwinner role

• biological differences

Bott

• two types of conjugal roles

• segregated conjugal roles

• joint conjugal roles

Hochschild

• emotion work - responsible for m anaging the emotions and feelings of family members eg squabbles

Duncombe and Marsden

triple shift

Pahl and Volger

• allowance system

• pooling - doesnt means there equality it means that equal amounts are put in pay difference still exists

• men make the major financial decisions

Edgell

• professional couples:

• very important decisions - husband alone/final say e.g. moving house

• important decisions - jointly e.g. where to go on holiday

• less important - wife alone typically eg children’s clothes

The Home Office

• domestic violence = ‘Any incident or pattern of incidents of controlling, coercive or threatening behaviour, violence or abuse between those aged 16 or over who are or have been intimate partners or family members regardless of gender or sexuality’

• includes psychological, physical, sexual, financial and emotional violence or abuse

Dobash and dobash

• research on women refugees - wives slapped, pushed, beaten, raped or killed

• violent incidents set off by what the husband saw as a challenge to his authority - men argue that marriage legitmises violence

Ansley

• wives as ‘takers of shit’ - dv is a product of capitalism. male workers are exploited at work and take their frustrations out on their wives

Benedict

children in simpler, non industrial societies are generally treated differently from modern western societies in three ways:

1. take responsibility from a young age - working in Bolivia 5 year olds

2. less value on obedience to adult authority

3. children’s sexual behaviour is treated differently - ‘tolerance and amused interest’

Ariés

Shorter

Pollack

Postman

Jenks

Firestone and Holt

Gittins

Mayhall