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What is a nuclear family?

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Married couple living with their biological and dependant children.

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What is a non-family household?

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Group of people living together, none of whom are married or related.

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What is a cohabiting couple?

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Couple who live together but aren’t married.

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What is a same-sex family?

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A family or couple who are of the same sex.

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What is a reconstituted family?

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Family where one or both of the partners have children from a a previous relationship.

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What is a family household?

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A household that contains a family group.

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What is a lone-parent family?

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A family with one parent and their child - usually headed by a woman.

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What is a modified extended family?

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Extended family whose members live apart geographically but maintain regular contact and provide support.

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What is an extended family?

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Family consisting of parents and children along with other relatives of different generations.

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What is a bean pole family?

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2 or more generations of family members with additions beyond nuclear family.

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What is a patriarchal family?

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Male headed/dominated family.

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What is a matrifocal family?

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Female headed family.

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What does child-centered mean?

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Idea that children are the focal point of the family and wider society.

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What does social construct mean?

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Something created by society.

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What is toxic childhood?

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Technology damage children as they expose them to explicit content and replace traditional parenting techniques.

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What is the march of progress?

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Wider society, family and childhood are improving.

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What is the age patriarchy (childhood) ?

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Adults have more power and control over children.

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What does the golden age of childhood refer to?

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Childhood is a time for happiness and innocence.

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What does factory acts mean (childhood) ?

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Law removed children from the workplace.

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What does the term mini adults refer to?

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Children and adults were alike.

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What does symmetrical family mean?

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Family where the roles of husband/wife or any couple are equal and alike.

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What does the term functional fit refer to (functionalist) ?

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Nuclear family needed to fit the needs of industrial society.

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What does loss of functions mean?

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Family becomes responsible for fewer functions.

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What does instrumental role refer to?

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Provider/breadwinner role in the family. Often the man.

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What is the warm bath theory?

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Family is where adults relax and release tensions. Provide emotional support. They return to workplace refreshed.

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What is primary socialisation?

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1st stage of learning culture and norms of society. Happens in the family.

27
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What is social mobility?

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Movement of groups/individuals up or down social hierarchy.

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What is achieved status?

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Social position based on individual effort, ability and reward.

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What does ‘overgeneorus welfare state’ refer to?

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State is too interfering in lives of the individual.

30
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What does ‘abolition of the welfare benefits’ refer to?

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New right policy aims to remove underclass and their culture of dependency.

31
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What is the underclass?

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Social class group created by the ‘overgeneorus’ welfare state (according to New Right)

32
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What is dependency culture?

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Way of life where members are said to depend on state benefits.

33
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What are ‘fatherless families’ according to New Right theorists?

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Single-parent families.

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What does the term proletariat refer to?

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Social class of workers who work for wages and don’t own means of productions.

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What does the term bourgeoisie refer to?

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Social class of owners with means of production and wealth.

36
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What is the buffer zone? (Marxism)

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Family provide ideological space to protect workers from full time misery caused by capitalism.

37
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What is the unit of consumption?

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Family serves economic function. They consume together (buy products etc.)

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What does the term policing families refer to? (Marxism)

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Social control of poor families by state professionals (e.g. social workers) to change and ‘improve’ them.

39
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What is pester power?

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Children demand latest products from parents. Family is a unit of consumption.

40
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What are gender scripts?

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Expected norms and behaviors of different gender roles men and women play out in heterosexual couples.

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What does the phrase ‘takers of shit’ refer to?

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Women absorb all frustration men feel from working in capitalist society (link to warm bath theory)

42
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Describe the housewife role.

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Role expected of women. Care for children etc.

43
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What are gender inequalities?

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Social/cultural divisions between men and women.

44
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What are patriarchal ideologies?

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Ideas/beliefs which legitimise male dominated society.

45
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What is gender socialisation?

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Process of learning different roles and expected behaviors associated with gender.

46
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What is the triple shift?

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Women carry out three roles; housework, paid work and emotion work.

47
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What is the expressive role?

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Job that is “biologically suited for women”. Caring for family and primary socialisation.

48
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What is emotion work (triple shift) ?

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Role of dealing with feelings of family members. Usually the woman.

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What does the term New Man refer to?

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A man who is more in touch with emotional needs of himself and others.

50
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What is the dual burden?

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Where women take on responsibility for both housework and paid work.

51
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What does domestic labour refer to?

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Unpaid housework.

52
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What is the Domestic Division of Labour?

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Way in which housework and tasks/roles within the household are split between a couple.

53
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What is the commercialisation of housework?

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The way that housework is made easier due to technology becoming affordable and easier to use.

54
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What does the term ‘pooling’ refer to?

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Sharing of household income between both adults in partnership.

55
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What does ‘allowance system’ refer to?

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Men give allowance to the family.

F+H - Sociology (2 decks)

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