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Flashcards by RachelBean, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by RachelBean
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| Question | Answer |
| 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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