Sociology 2169 Chapter 9: Chapter 9 Textbook Notes
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Work-family conflict occurs when work responsibilities and obligations interfere with family responsibilities and obligations. Role overload - total demands on time and energy are associated with the prescribed activities or multiple roles are too great to perform the roles adequately or comfortably. Role strains the experience of discomfort, pressure, worry, anxiety, tensions, or frustration that may arise when people function in both work and home life: role conflict role strain. Abstract worker one with no family, no children, or other outside obligations, who exists only for the work. 19th and 20th centuries man devoted time and energy to their paid work to provide for household, while wives devoted their time to maintain a home and raising children. Ideal division of labour (family work and paid work both completed) Today: hard for men to completely detach themselves from their families, and less common for women to be specialized in just homemaking.
