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Family Key Words
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- 1Nuclear Familytwo-generation family made of hetrosexual couple and children
- 2Householda group of people living together who may or may not be related
- 3Familya group consisting of parents and children living together in a household. May be related by blood, birth, marriage or adoption
- 4sexual divisions of labourdivision of paid and domestic work into men's and women's jobs
- 5Pre-industrialbefore industrialisation
- 6ascription/ascribed statusallocation of roles and status on the bases of fixed characteristics e.g. gender/status being ascribed at birth
- 7achievement/ascribed statusallocation of roles and status based on individual achievement/earning your status rather than being given it at birth
- 8Industrialisationmain workforce changing from primary industry to secondary industries and mass movement from countryside into urban areas
- 9Geographically MobileFamilies being able to move around for work
- 10instrumental leadermale role; he is responsible for economic welfare of the family and protection of family members
- 11expressive leaderwomen's role; responsible for the socialisation of children and emotional care and support of family members
- 12ideological apparatusaccording to Marxists, any institution that involves transmitting the ruling class ideas e.g. education
- 13Conservative 'ideology'belief that in traditional ideas and institutions. They are suspicious of radical change
- 14extended kinship networksrelationships between family members beyond nuclear family e.g. aunts, uncles, grandparents
- 15mutual economic supporta system in which family members work to support each other
- 16social solidarityfeeling of belonging
- 17Symmetrical familya nuclear family in which both spouses perform equally important roles
- 18Consensuscommon agreement on shared values
- 19delinquencycrime committed by young people
- 20consumptionthe ways in which individuals use goods and services
- 21Dysfunctionalhaving negative consequences
- 22Feminization of the Economyan economic trend that began in the 1990s whereby the majority of newly available jobs were aimed at women
- 23Functional prerequisitesthe basic needs of society such as the need for social order
- 24Patriarchal ideologymale-dominated ideas
- 25social controlprocess of persuading, encouraging and enforcing conformity
- 26subculturesubscribing to cultural values and norms that may be different from the mainstream
- 27Familial Ideologythe 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
- 28Idealizedideas presented as the ideal i.e. something perfect
- 29Maternal deprivationthe view that if a child is deprived of maternal love it will grow up to be psychologically damaged
- 30Private Institutionsomething that occurs 'behind closed doors' with few links with the wider community
- 31Close-knit communitycommunity in which there are close relationships between people
- 32Divorcelegal ending of a marriage
- 33Divorce petitionlegal request for a divorce
- 34Empty-shell marriagea marriage in which the partners are no longer in love but stay together, usually for the children
- 35IrretrievableA marriage unable to be recovered, broken down forever
- 36Monogamythe practise of having only one partner
- 37Negative Labellingtreating something as being 'bad' or 'undesirable'
- 38Privatized nuclear familya home-centred family that has little contact with extended kin or neighbours
- 39Reconstituted familiesStep-families
- 40Scapegoatedunfairly blamed
- 41Serial monogamya series of long-term relationships
- 42Secularistaionpeople losing belief in religion
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- A Levels Sociology (Families & Households) Flashcards on Family Key Words, created by RachelBean on 30/12/2013.
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