Traditional gender arrangements in working poor family households : persistence beyond all economic logic

Kutzner, Stefan; Streuli, Elisa

doi:10.21256/zhaw-4342

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Publication type:	Article in scientific journal
Type of review:	Peer review (publication)
Title:	Traditional gender arrangements in working poor family households : persistence beyond all economic logic
Authors:	Kutzner, Stefan Streuli, Elisa
DOI:	10.21256/zhaw-4342
Published in:	Swiss Journal of Sociology
Volume(Issue):	31
Issue:	2
Page(s):	295
Pages to:	320
Issue Date:	2005
Publisher / Ed. Institution:	Seismo
ISSN:	0379-3664 2297-8348
Language:	German
Subjects:	Working Poor; Geschlechterarrangement; Geschlechternormen; Objektive Hermeneutik; Gender arrangements; Gender norms; objective hermeneutics
Subject (DDC):	305: Groups (age, origine, gender, income) 640: Home economics and family living
Abstract:	Im Mittelpunkt des Artikels stehen Fallrekonstruktionen von Sozialhilfe beziehenden Working Poor Haushalten. Diesen ist gemeinsam, dass sich die Eheleute für ein Geschlechterarrangement entschieden haben, welches sich in Bezug auf die Verteilung der bezahlten und unbezahlten Arbeit weitgehend an traditionalistischen Geschlechternormen orientiert. Anhand von vier exemplarischen Fallstudien wird aufgezeigt, dass dieses Arrangement selbst dann aufrechterhalten wird, wenn damit ökonomische Einbussen verbunden sind und die Abhängigkeit von der Sozialhilfe dadurch bestehen bleibt. Diesen Befund diskutieren wir vor dem Hintergrund des Modells von Krüger und Levy (1997) zum «Masterstatus». Schliesslich wird eine Erklärung für die Persistenz traditioneller Geschlechterarrangements skizziert. This paper centers on case reconstructions of welfare-receiving working poor households. What these households have in common is that husband and wife have chosen a gendered structural arrangement that largely follows traditional norms with regard to the sexspecific division of paid and unpaid work. On the basis of four illustrative case studies, it is shown that this arrangement is being maintained even when it implies economic lasses and results in continuing dependence on welfare payments. This finding is discussed wich reference to Krüger and Levy' s (1997) model of master status areas of responsibility. The conclusion sketches out an explanation for the persistence of traditional gendered models of the division of work.
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License (according to publishing contract):	CC BY-NC-ND 4.0: Attribution - Non commercial - No derivatives 4.0 International
Departement:	Applied Psychology
Organisational Unit:	Institute of Applied Psychology (IAP)
Appears in collections:	Publikationen Angewandte Psychologie

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Kutzner, S., & Streuli, E. (2005). Traditional gender arrangements in working poor family households : persistence beyond all economic logic. Swiss Journal of Sociology, 31(2), 295–320. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-4342

Kutzner, S. and Streuli, E. (2005) ‘Traditional gender arrangements in working poor family households : persistence beyond all economic logic’, Swiss Journal of Sociology, 31(2), pp. 295–320. Available at: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-4342.

S. Kutzner and E. Streuli, “Traditional gender arrangements in working poor family households : persistence beyond all economic logic,” Swiss Journal of Sociology, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 295–320, 2005, doi: 10.21256/zhaw-4342.

KUTZNER, Stefan und Elisa STREULI, 2005. Traditional gender arrangements in working poor family households : persistence beyond all economic logic. Swiss Journal of Sociology [online]. 2005. Bd. 31, Nr. 2, S. 295–320. DOI 10.21256/zhaw-4342. Verfügbar unter: https://szs.sgs-sss.ch/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/revue_31_2_2005.pdf

Kutzner, Stefan, and Elisa Streuli. 2005. “Traditional gender arrangements in working poor family households : persistence beyond all economic logic.” Swiss Journal of Sociology 31 (2): 295–320. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-4342.

Kutzner, Stefan, and Elisa Streuli. “Traditional gender arrangements in working poor family households : persistence beyond all economic logic.” Swiss Journal of Sociology, vol. 31, no. 2, 2005, pp. 295–320, https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-4342.