Families and households

Question 1

What does Elizabeth Young talk about?

Answer 1

Segregated conjugal roles- a couple have separate roles (male breadwinner woman housewife) and the leisure of the couple is separate from one another. Joint Conjugal Roles- couples share tasks and their leisure is usually together.

Question 2

What does Jonathan Gershuny believe?

Answer 2

Believes woman working full time means more equal divisions of labour within the household.

Question 3

What did Oriel Sullivan find?

Answer 3

Found that data from 1975/1987/1997 shows a trend of woman doing smaller domestic tasks whereas more men were doing womans ‘traditional’ tasks

Question 4

What does Boulton believe

Answer 4

Believes mothers are still generally the ones in charge of childcare

Question 5

What does Sue Palmer argue?

Answer 5

“toxic childhood’. She argues that rapid technological and cultural changes in the past 25 years have damaged children’s physical, emotional and intellectual development

Question 8

What does Murdock argue?

Answer 8

Argues the family performs four essential functions to meet the needs of society and its members, those functions being: stable satisfaction of the sex drive, Reproduction of the next generation, Socialisation of the young, meeting its members’ economic needs.

Question 9

What is a geographically mobile workforce?

Answer 9

This is when individuals can move to where the work is

Question 10

What is a social mobile workforce?

Answer 10

when individuals apply for, secure and succeed in roles above (or below) their social class.