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Nuclear Family
Definition
A family made up of a father, mother and child/children.
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Extended Family
Definition
The family that contains members beynd the nuclear family. EG grandparents,aunts,uncles etc.
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Lone Parent Family
Definition
A family that consists of one adult plus child/children
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Reconstituted Family
Definition
a step family
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Cereal Packet Family/Traditional family
Definition
A family where the male does the paid work and the female is the housewife and child carer.
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patriarchy
Definition
male domination
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matriarchy
Definition
female domination
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Separatism
Definition
Where males and females live separately from one another.
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Familialism
Definition
The ideology that states that the 'normal family' is the cereal packet family.
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Patrilineality
Definition
Inheritance of private property through the male line
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Dysfunctional Family
Definition
A family that doesn't benefit society or the individuals within it.
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Monogamous
Definition
When someone is only married to one person at any one time.
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Polygamous
Definition
Having more than one husband/wife at any one time
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Serial Monogamy
Definition
When someone marries,Divorces and re-marries a number of times.
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HouseHold
Definition
People who live under the same roof
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One Person HouseHold
Definition
When one person lives alone in a house
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Universal family
Definition
The idea that the family is found in all societies in the world
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Primary socialisation
Definition
The process of learning the culture of society, which begins in the family
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stabilisation of the adult personality
Definition
The idea that the family keeps people sane as it will always love them no matter what happens.
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Instrumental Role
Definition
The role of the male in the family to be the provider and go out to do paid work
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expressive role
Definition
the role of the female in the family to provide care for the male/children by being a housewife and mother
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Irreducible Functions
Definition
These are basic functions that will always exist, they cannot be reduced further.
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Achieved Status
Definition
Respect given to a person because of the paid work they do
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Ascribed status
Definition
Respect given to a person because of their position in the family
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master status
Definition
Is where one aspect of a person's identity dominates perceptions of that person
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Culture of dependency
Definition
The idea associated with the new right that some people do not want to work and instead prefer to rely upon benefits from the welfare state.
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Reserve army of labour
Definition
A group of workers who are taken into employment in an economic boom,then made redundant in a recession
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False Needs
Definition
When people feel that their lives would be improved by buying material goods,eg new care, house, clothes etc.
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Ideological state apparatus
Definition
The mechanism in society that controls our ideas and beliefs. Eg Family and education.
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Domestic
Definition
division of labor the way that work in the home is divided
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Conjugal Roles
Definition
The role of the husband and wife within the family
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New Man
Definition
Men who do housework and child care and are in touch with their 'feminine' side
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Symmetrical Family
Definition
A family where the roles of the male and female are becoming equal/balanced
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Principal Of stratified Diffusion
Definition
The idea that the working class always copy the way the way the middle class behave/think
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Dual career family
Definition
A family where both partners have paid work outside the home.
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Family Diversity
Definition
The idea that there are many types of family in society
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Socially Constructed
Definition
Something that is created by society, that is not natural, eg childhood
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Burden of dependency
Definition
The situation where there are more people past retirement age than there are of working age
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Tricycle of Care
Definition
When women spend their lives caring for others, their children, their ageing parents, their husbands.
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divorce
Definition
The legal ending of a marriage
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Empty Shell Marriage
Definition
Where people are married in 'name only' and lead completely separate lives, despite living in the same house.
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Cohabitation
Definition
Where two people live together without being married.
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Illegitimate children
Definition
Children whose parents are not married
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Duel Burden
Definition
When a person has paid work but is also responsible for domestic labour.
Term
birth rate
Definition
The number of live births per 1000 of the population per year
Term
Total Fertility Rate
Definition
The average number of children women will have during their fertile years
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Infant Mortality Rate
Definition
Measures the number of infants that will die before their first birthday, per 1,000 babies born alive per year.
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Net Migration
Definition
Difference between the number immigrating and the numbers emigrating
Term
Demography
Definition
Study of the human population including size,growth,movement,density and composition
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Dependency ratio
Definition
Number of non-working people compared to the working members in given peopulation
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organic analogy
Definition
all key institutions are like the human body, it one fails then the others follow.
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