family most of the time and it is better economically suited for most people. Since there are only two spouses‚ monogamy has been shown to offer the highest form of love and affection and sex relations are more regulated. Disadvantages of monogamy aren’t often mentioned since its practiced by the majority of people in the world but things can get complicated between the two spouses if abuse or adultery gets involved. Even so‚ both the woman and man can divorce freely if they wish
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A clear-cut tendency is observed today: neither men nor women are in a hurry to marry. The growing independence of women‚ reluctant to do all housework and bear the main burden of children’s upbringing‚ sacrificing career growth‚ is one of the causes of the changes in family formation. A happy marriage may be built only on love‚ tolerance‚ mutual understanding‚ equality‚ and respect. The problem is important because materially both husband and wife are now in many cases on equal terms. More and more
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in every endeavor What roles involved gender stratification? -Work (Barely 20% of women worked outside home) -Education (Women only expected to graduate high school) -Politics (Women couldn’t vote until 1920) -Housework (Woman averaged 40 hours of housework a week) Define
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They face “role overload” ‚which means trying to merge the roles of worker and mother or wife. When both spouses work outside‚ women tend to do the “lion’s share” of the housework. For example‚ an Australian research showed that working women do roughly 70 hours of housework while working husbands only do approximately 31 hours. In Japan many women work fulltime share the housework with their spouse. However
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are highlighted below. The first significant cause of recent rise in the rates of divorce is that women completely change in roles. In the past‚ men had to bear the whole income of the family and afforded all the expenses‚ whereas woman only did housework and took care of babies. Hence‚ women had no money with led them to depend on husbands’ money. Because of these situations‚ it is difficult for most women to separate from their husbands. In today modern world‚ these situations entirely changed.
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strictly private reasons‚ and carve out their own‚ strictly private bargain about the relationship‚ we call that relationship not marriage but "cohabitation." In America‚ it is now more popular than ever. More men and women are moving in together‚ sharing an apartment and a bed‚ without getting married first. The latest Census Bureau figures show four million couples living together outside of marriage (not counting gay couples)‚ eight times as many as in 1970. And many more people have cohabited than
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aspects of equality/inequality in conjugal roles. Some have concentrated on the division of labour in the home: they have examined the allocation of responsibility for domestic work between husband and wife and the amount of time spent by spouses on particular tasks. Others have tried to measure the distribution of power within marriage. Willmott and Young‚ and Gillian Dunne are amongst those who have argued that conjugal roles are equal. However many sociologists such as Ann Oakley
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FAMILY George Peter Murdock (Social Structure 250 societies) “A social group characterised by common residence‚ economic co-operation and reproduction. It includes adults of both sexes‚ at least two of whom maintain socially approved sexual relationship‚ and one or more children‚ own or adopted of the sexually co-habiting adults”. The family thus lives together‚ puts resources and produces offspring. Nuclear family is the smallest group. Extended family is Nuclear family plus vertical
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care of the house‚ the children and keeping husband satisfied in life such as; dealing with physical‚ mental‚ social and sexual needs (636). Compare to Brady’ description of a wife instead‚ the wife has to do all of the housework‚ my idea of a spouse is when taking care of housework‚ both husband and wife should help each others. Unlike to Brady’s wife‚ my type of wife should
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“Assess the view that conjugal roles‚ domestic labour and power relationships have changed significantly over the past 50 years (24 marks).” Different sociologists have had different views to whether conjugal roles have become equal. Some researchers have concentrated on the division of labour in the home by examining the allocation of domestic work between husband and wife‚ and the amount of time spent on particular tasks. Others have tried to measure the distribution of power within marriage.
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