sociology essay
‘Examine the factors affecting power relationships and division of labour between couples’
Young and Wilmott (1973) took the view of a march of progress outlook on the history of family, they see the family being as improving slowly for the whole family which means it’s becoming more equal and democratic but they argue that this has been a long term trend away from segregated conjugal roles and towards joint conjugal roles and the symmetrical family, by this they mean that the husbands and wives roles are although not identical but they are now much similar for example women now go out to work which could be part time or full time but more commonly part time, men now have to help out with doing the housework and looking after the children, the husbands and wives now spend their free time doing things together rather than with their friends and colleagues from work this shows they are more home-centred. During their study of the families in London young and Wilmott found that the symmetrical family was more frequent among the younger generation of couples these are the people that are geographically and socially separate and therefore are better off. When Young and Wilmott did their study they saw that ‘young couples who had moved away from Bethnal green and were living a distance from their extended family and their work colleagues were more envisaged to have a symmetrical relationship also Young and Wilmott saw a rise in the symmetrical nuclear family due to the result in major changes that have taken place in the past century which were that women’s position in the workplace changed, that their there were couples living away from the neighbourhoods that they grew up in, more technology came onto the market and that the standard of living went up significantly.
Sociologists have found that there are other patterns of domestic violence, Wilkinson (1996) found that domestic violence offers and explanation of the different patterns which are that stress on
Young and Wilmott (1973) took the view of a march of progress outlook on the history of family, they see the family being as improving slowly for the whole family which means it’s becoming more equal and democratic but they argue that this has been a long term trend away from segregated conjugal roles and towards joint conjugal roles and the symmetrical family, by this they mean that the husbands and wives roles are although not identical but they are now much similar for example women now go out to work which could be part time or full time but more commonly part time, men now have to help out with doing the housework and looking after the children, the husbands and wives now spend their free time doing things together rather than with their friends and colleagues from work this shows they are more home-centred. During their study of the families in London young and Wilmott found that the symmetrical family was more frequent among the younger generation of couples these are the people that are geographically and socially separate and therefore are better off. When Young and Wilmott did their study they saw that ‘young couples who had moved away from Bethnal green and were living a distance from their extended family and their work colleagues were more envisaged to have a symmetrical relationship also Young and Wilmott saw a rise in the symmetrical nuclear family due to the result in major changes that have taken place in the past century which were that women’s position in the workplace changed, that their there were couples living away from the neighbourhoods that they grew up in, more technology came onto the market and that the standard of living went up significantly.
Sociologists have found that there are other patterns of domestic violence, Wilkinson (1996) found that domestic violence offers and explanation of the different patterns which are that stress on