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Key sociological terms
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- 1SocietyA group of people who share a culture
- 2SociologyThe study of human social life, groups and societies
- 3Social StructuresThe groups and institutions that make up society such as families, the education system and social stratification system
- 4Social issuesIssues and problems that affect individuals, groups and communities in their daily lives such as fear of crime, inequality and poverty
- 5SocialisationThe process though which we learn the culture and values of the society we are born into
- 6CultureThe way of life of a society or group including its values, norms, beliefs and language
- 7Social processesProcesses such as socialisation, social control and social change
- 8Social StratificationThe way society is structured or divided into hierarchial strata or layers with the most privileged group at the top and the least privileged at the bottom
- 9DysfunctionalBroken family/home
- 10ReconstitutedRemarried parent e.g. step brother
- 11Single/Lone parentOne parent and their child/children
- 12Nuclear/Cereal packet familyTwo parent and their child/children
- 13Extended (vertically)Multi-generational household, grandparents/in laws
- 14Extended (horizontally)Same generational household, aunts and cousins
- 15Empty nestNo children
- 16HomosexualSame-sex parents and their child/children
- 17MonogamyMarriage involving only two people of the opposite sex
- 18PolygamyMarriage involving at least three people
- 19PolygynyWhere a man can have more than one wife
- 20PolyandryWhere a woman can have more than one husband
- 21Serial monogamyMarried to several people over a lifetime, but one at a time
- 221971All marriages were at its peak
- 231973Level of newly weds dropped
- 241996There were 185,000 first marriages less than half the total in 1970
- 251945The number of divorce has increased since 1945
- 26197063000 divorces in the UK
- 271993180000
- 282007144000
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