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Families+ Households Perspectives 2.0,2.1,2.2,2.3 > Defining Families And Households 2.0 > Flashcards

Defining Families And Households 2.0 Flashcards

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Family

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People who are related, marriage and blood, cohabitation

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Household

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Same residence, student accommodation, in modern society more people live alone

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Monogamy

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Two individuals married to each other

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Serial monogamy

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Series of monogamous marriages

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Arranged marriage

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Parents match their children with partners of a similar background and status

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Civil partnership

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Legal recognition to the relationships of same sex couples

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Polygamy

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Marriage ro more than one partner at the same time

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Polygyny

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One husband and two or more wives

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Polyandry

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One wife and two or more husbands

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Nuclear family

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Two generations of family living in one household. Parents expected ro fulfil traditional gender and conjugal roles in the family unit

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Murdock 1949 suggests

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Nuclear family is so important that it exists in some format in every society

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Beanpole family

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A multi generation extended family which is long and thin with few aunts, uncles and cousins

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Cereal packet family

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Functionalist concept ideal family is 1 mother , 1 father and 2 children

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Cohabiting family

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Family in a location but not by blood or legally

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Commune families

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Groups of people who live together

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Dual career family

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Both employed parents - the dual burden of juggling work and domestic responsibilities

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Empty next family

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Children have grown up and moved out of parental home

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Extended family

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3 or more generations connected by blood or marriage relationships from a social unit and live together

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Foster families and children’s home

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Considerable amounts of children are looked after and bought up in Foster care or children’s home

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Gay and lesbian families

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The civil partnership act of 2004 gave legal recognition to the relationships of same sex couples

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Kibbutz family

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Type of settlement unique to Israel. First kibbutz founded in 1910

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Lone parent family

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Becoming increasingly common in Western societies and is usually headed by a women

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Matriarchal family

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Female headed family

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Nayar style family

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A women could jave sexual relations with any man she wished and the biological father of children was therefore uncertain. Brother in charge of looking after mum, wife and children

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Patriarchal family

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Authority and power lies in the hands of the man

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Reconstituted family

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A couple and children either raised in anearlier marriage and children they raised together

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Symmetrical family

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Power and decision making authority are equally distributed between he husband and the wife

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Families+ Households Perspectives 2.0,2.1,2.2,2.3 (8 decks)

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