韓國 都市家族의 家事役割과 勢力關係에 關한 實證的인 硏究 = An Empirical Study on the Role Performance, Expectation, and Power Relations of the Urban Family in Korea

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This research has attempted to study urban housewive's role expectation and role performance in the family, power relations with their husbands and their marital satisfaction. The data for this research have been collected by sampling method. The number of samples is 556 housewives residing in Taegu city. They were interviewed according to the interview schedule. The result of this research can be summarized as follows:
1. Role Expectation and Role Differentiation
(1) Viewed in the trational role differentiation by sex, the realm of women's role performance has been expanded while that of men's has been contracted. Husbands still play the trational men's role of earning income, handling official business and repairing house, whereas housewives perform their tradional role of cleaning house, laundry, doing kitchen work and child-care.
(2) Housewives, however, have taken over the role of their husbands such as participation in school events and management of family finance. They also have shared their husband's role of household head by visiting relatives and partaking ceremonial occasions. Furthermore, they perform equal role in punishing children considered as the action symbilizing the husband's authority.
(3) These role differentiation in the family is not the result of husband's defaulted role performance but the reflection of general tendency regarding housewive's fulfillment of both family tasks and social affairs as being desirable.
2. Power Relations
(1)The conception of family power has been controversial issue among sociologists. Here I will restrict it to the decision-making. Husbands take a greater part in the choice of TV channels and housewives choice of menu and arrangement of household surroundings. They, however, make decision equally in the following detail areas; vacation plan, movement of house, choice of a hospital, amount of savings, child education, selection of contraceptive, marriage of children and supporting of parent-in-laws.
(2) In addition, couple tend to make mutual decision in the significant areas of family life. In short, couples who make equalitaria decision-making outnumbers women or men who make unilateral decision-making outnumbers women or men who make unilateral decision-making.
(3) Even in the stem family cohabitating with parents which accounts for one third of the whole respondents, the power of decision-making is given the son's couple and the power relations between couple are mainly equalitarian type.
(4) Women indicate as the basis of power traditional norms and cultural norms rather than individual accomplishment such as income, education, and personality.
3. Marital Satisfaction
(1)
The result of using differently expressed questionaire impling the same subject has demonstrated that a great number of women are satisfied with their marriage while a few of them are not.
(2) The issue of measuring marital satisfaction have been open to controversy in spite of a lot of researches concerning this subject. Age and education of the housewife, social status of the family and type of generational composition of the family have much influence on the housewife's marital satisfaction.
4. Conclusion
As I have discussed above, women's role differentiation and power relations in the urban family has changed greatly compared to those in the preindustrial society of Korea. It has been revealed that the role differentiation and power relations has directed toward equalitarianism. This research dealing with only housewives can be completed by the equivalent study of men.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 序論
• Ⅱ. 家事의 役割遂行과 役割期待
• 1. 家族成員의 地位와 役割
• 2. 家事分擔과 役割遂行
• 3. 家事分擔에의 役割期待
• Ⅲ. 家族의 勢力關係
• 1. 家事決定者와 決定의 領域
• 2. 家事決定에서 重要視되는 領域
• 3. 家族의 勢力型과 그 根據
• Ⅳ. 結婚生活의 滿足度
• 1. 結婚生活에서의 滿足度
• 2. 結婚生活의 滿足度와 그 要因의 相關
• Ⅴ. 結論
• 1. 要約
• 2. 結語