Elizabeth Bott

Elizabeth Bott continued developing the last stage in her study "Family and social network". SDhe argued that the segregation in the roles between wife and husband varies with the connection with social network. After interviews with 20 London families she developed the idead of two conjugal roles: joint and segregated. Class plaied a very important factor in determining the type of roles. She said that joint conjugal roles are more typical in middle class families, when wife and husband have the same interests, they share all the duties and tasks, dispersed social network. While segregated conjugal role is more typical in working class families, when husband and wife have different tasks and duties ( more common when husband is earning money for the family while wife is responsible for domestic duties) and also they have separated interests; those who know family, knows each other