This Sociology Knowledge Test is designed to cover all aspects of the Family and Households topic. Test your understanding across various areas within sociology related to families and households.
, Couples: Domestic Division of Labour
1. What traditional roles did Parsons (1955) come up with for men and women
(explain what he meant by them)
2. Why does Parson’s distinguish between these types of roles for men and
women?
3. What types of conjugal roles does Bott (1957) distinguish? (explain the
different meanings)
4. How did Young and Willmott (1973) identify a pattern of segregated conjugal
roles?
5. What did Young and Willmott (1973) mean by the symmetrical family?
6. According to Young and Willmott (1973), the rise of the symmetrical nuclear
family is the result of?
7. What do feminist sociologists mean by patriarchal society?
8. In her own research, Oakley (1974) found …
9. Supporting Oakley’s finding, Boulton (1983) found that …
10. What did Warde and Hetherington (1993) find about ‘sex-typing’ in families?
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