Family
The family gender and housework
This section provides classroom resources for considering the family, gender and housework, and in particular focuses on strategies men use to avoid housework.
Francine Deutsch’s research, based on both interviews and observations, identifies ways in which men use strategies to avoid housework:
Discover More Strategies Men Use to Resist Housework
Students could conduct interviews at home designed to identify the reasons why parent(s) and others complete the household tasks they are ‘assigned to’ and not others. Is there any evidence to support Deutsch’s findings?
More Resources from Discovering Sociology
A useful overview of the Functionalist view of youth culture can be found below:
youth-subcultures
Some Sociologists suggest that subcultures may no longer exist in the form that they once did. Fo...
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Students should be able to draw on examples from a wide range of subcultures, both classic and...
youth-subcultures
The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) based at Birmingham University produced a ...
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The class could investigate and consider the extent to which they consider the ‘haul girl&r...
youth-subcultures
Students could be asked to write a timeline of their lives as they anticipate them to be after...
youth-subcultures
The following Daily Mail article laments the adoption of Jamaican patois styles of language in...
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David Starkey featured in a Newsnight discussion about the 2011 UK riots. This Guardian articl...
youth-subcultures
By way of starting off an investigation into youth subcultures, teachers could pose the proble...
youth-subcultures
We begin here by looking at ‘what is youth?’, and then the idea of youth-subcultures