Family Key Words

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Nuclear Family	two-generation family made of hetrosexual couple and children
Household	a group of people living together who may or may not be related
Family	a group consisting of parents and children living together in a household. May be related by blood, birth, marriage or adoption
sexual divisions of labour	division of paid and domestic work into men's and women's jobs
Pre-industrial	before industrialisation
ascription/ascribed status	allocation of roles and status on the bases of fixed characteristics e.g. gender/status being ascribed at birth
achievement/ascribed status	allocation of roles and status based on individual achievement/earning your status rather than being given it at birth
Industrialisation	main workforce changing from primary industry to secondary industries and mass movement from countryside into urban areas
Geographically Mobile	Families being able to move around for work
instrumental leader	male role; he is responsible for economic welfare of the family and protection of family members
expressive leader	women's role; responsible for the socialisation of children and emotional care and support of family members
ideological apparatus	according to Marxists, any institution that involves transmitting the ruling class ideas e.g. education
Conservative 'ideology'	belief that in traditional ideas and institutions. They are suspicious of radical change
extended kinship networks	relationships between family members beyond nuclear family e.g. aunts, uncles, grandparents
mutual economic support	a system in which family members work to support each other
social solidarity	feeling of belonging
Symmetrical family	a nuclear family in which both spouses perform equally important roles
Consensus	common agreement on shared values
delinquency	crime committed by young people
consumption	the ways in which individuals use goods and services
Dysfunctional	having negative consequences
Feminization of the Economy	an economic trend that began in the 1990s whereby the majority of newly available jobs were aimed at women
Functional prerequisites	the basic needs of society such as the need for social order
Patriarchal ideology	male-dominated ideas
social control	process of persuading, encouraging and enforcing conformity
subculture	subscribing to cultural values and norms that may be different from the mainstream
Familial Ideology	the view that a particular type of family and particular living arrangements are the ideals that people aspire to e.g. marriage/women as mother/men as breadwinners
Idealized	ideas presented as the ideal i.e. something perfect
Maternal deprivation	the view that if a child is deprived of maternal love it will grow up to be psychologically damaged
Private Institution	something that occurs 'behind closed doors' with few links with the wider community
Close-knit community	community in which there are close relationships between people
Divorce	legal ending of a marriage
Divorce petition	legal request for a divorce
Empty-shell marriage	a marriage in which the partners are no longer in love but stay together, usually for the children
Irretrievable	A marriage unable to be recovered, broken down forever
Monogamy	the practise of having only one partner
Negative Labelling	treating something as being 'bad' or 'undesirable'
Privatized nuclear family	a home-centred family that has little contact with extended kin or neighbours
Reconstituted families	Step-families
Scapegoated	unfairly blamed
Serial monogamy	a series of long-term relationships
Secularistaion	people losing belief in religion

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