Sex Roles, Family and Society: The Seventies and Beyond

Abstract

The decade literature is divided into studies of children and preteens, adolescents and young adults, and marrieds. The amorphous nature of the term is discussed, and a model of gender-based decision making, applicable at both macro and micro levels, is offered as one way to specify relations between the sexes. Existing literature is then subsumed within the model; while suggestions are made to increase the sophistication of the next decade's sex role studies.