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GCSE Sociology · key term
The combination of paid work, domestic work and emotional work, such as maintaining relationships and supporting family members.
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Paper 1
Revise: Conjugal Role RelationshipsDuncombe and Marsden use triple shift to include emotional work: listening to worries, supporting relatives and maintaining family relationships as well as doing paid and domestic work.
Component 1
Combining paid employment, domestic work and responsibility for supporting family members emotionally.
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Duncombe and Marsden (1995) described a triple shift, adding emotional work, such as comforting a distressed child or supporting a worried partner. Two incomes do not automatically produce two equal domestic contributions.
The combination of paid employment, domestic work and emotional work.
