Defining Families And Households 2.0 Flashcards
Family
People who are related, marriage and blood, cohabitation
Household
Same residence, student accommodation, in modern society more people live alone
Monogamy
Two individuals married to each other
Serial monogamy
Series of monogamous marriages
Arranged marriage
Parents match their children with partners of a similar background and status
Civil partnership
Legal recognition to the relationships of same sex couples
Polygamy
Marriage ro more than one partner at the same time
Polygyny
One husband and two or more wives
Polyandry
One wife and two or more husbands
Nuclear family
Two generations of family living in one household. Parents expected ro fulfil traditional gender and conjugal roles in the family unit
Murdock 1949 suggests
Nuclear family is so important that it exists in some format in every society
Beanpole family
A multi generation extended family which is long and thin with few aunts, uncles and cousins
Cereal packet family
Functionalist concept ideal family is 1 mother , 1 father and 2 children
Cohabiting family
Family in a location but not by blood or legally
Commune families
Groups of people who live together
Dual career family
Both employed parents - the dual burden of juggling work and domestic responsibilities
Empty next family
Children have grown up and moved out of parental home
Extended family
3 or more generations connected by blood or marriage relationships from a social unit and live together
Foster families and children’s home
Considerable amounts of children are looked after and bought up in Foster care or children’s home
Gay and lesbian families
The civil partnership act of 2004 gave legal recognition to the relationships of same sex couples
Kibbutz family
Type of settlement unique to Israel. First kibbutz founded in 1910
Lone parent family
Becoming increasingly common in Western societies and is usually headed by a women
Matriarchal family
Female headed family
Nayar style family
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
